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Meenakshi Gupta holds a diagram of the breast showing orientation stripes in her examination room in the community health centre in Vapi (Credit: Priti Salian)
Health

A game-changer for breast cancer?

By Priti Salian

The vibration-based blood clotting test (Credit: Justin Chan/University of Washington)
Life:Connected

How your phone can check your heart

By Tom Ough
A beach in the Andaman Islands, India (Credit: Alamy)
Health

The mystery origins of Candida auris

By Zaria Gorvett
A group of friends hiking together in the countryside (Credit: Getty Images)
Romance

Is friendship as beneficial as love?

By Christine Ro
Immunologist Fatiha El Hilali started trying to counter fake news about vaccines after seeing a close friend die from Covid-19 (Credit: Kang-Chun Cheng)
Covid-19

How Covid-19 myths travelled the world

By Jacob Kushner and Kang-Chun Cheng in Morocco
Lanterns in the shape of sperm and an egg (Credit: Edward Berthelot/Getty Images)
Family Tree

Why male fertility is in decline

By Katherine Latham
Man cleaning windows (Credit: Getty Images)
Disease

How clean should your home be?

By Isabelle Gerretsen
When food prices rise, rates of malnutrition have been seen to increase among the most food-insecure communities (Credit: Getty Images)
Food

Europe's experiments in 'free food'

By Kira Walker
Research suggests that humans may need more sleep during the dark winter months than they do during the summer (Credit: Getty Images)
Sleep

Why you need more sleep in the winter

By Isabelle Gerretsen
Firefighters spray foam on an aircraft during a drill (Credit: Mehmet Kaman/Getty Images)
Burning Questions

The long legacy of 'forever chemicals'

By Richard Gray
Adult and baby feet side by side (Credit: Getty Images)
Mental health

The people who feel they are shrinking

By Roberta Angheleanu
The German seaside is a popular spot for family health retreats (Credit: Getty Images)
Family Tree

How Germany treats parental burnout

By Sophie Hardach
There are more than 300 different ethnic groups in Nigeria, which is why scientists are hoping to map the genetic diversity in the country (Credit: Luis Tato/AFP/Getty Images)
Beyond the Genome

Why the world faces a 'genomic gap'

By David Cox
Treating the mental health challenges faced by veterans of Ukraine's war is a large and growing challenge (Credit: Getty Images)
Conflict

Ukraine's mental health first aiders

By Martha Henriques
The UN warns that the war in Ukraine could leave a "toxic legacy for generations to come" (Credit: Dimitar Dilkoff/Getty Images)
Sensory Overload

The toxic legacy of the Ukraine war

By Anna Turns
Even low levels of daily exposure to air pollution can take its toll on our olfactory capabilities (Credit: Kevin Frayer/Getty Images)
Sensory Overload

Why our sense of smell is disappearing

By Tim Smedley