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Why do Ozempic and Wegovy seem to treat everything?

It is rare that a drug becomes a household name and even rarer for one to become a superstar, but

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Most comprehensive picture yet of how organs age at different rates

Someone’s kidneys could be a decade older, biologically, than their brain Christian Kitzmuller/Alamy Our organs appear to age at different

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Record-breaking diamond storage can save data for millions of years

Diamonds can store data stably for long periods of time University of Science and Technology of China The famous marketing

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Hunter-gatherers built a massive fish trap in Belize 4000 years ago

Satellite image showing channels that formed part of an ancient fishery, and Mayan sites nearby Google Earth Archaeologists have discovered

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We’ve taken a photo of a star in another galaxy for the first time

Left: An image of the star WOH G64 taken with the Very Large Telescope Interferometer in Chile. Right: An artist’s

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Vital Atlantic Ocean current is already weakening due to melting ice

A study modelling the impact of melting ice suggests scientists have underestimated the risk that an important ocean current will

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A 200-year-old mystery about newts has finally been solved

A genetic flaw dooms half of all crested newts to die before they hatch – now we know how this

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Red kites and buzzards are being killed by misuse of rat poisons

Red kites have been found with high levels of rodenticides in their livers TheOtherKev/Pixabay Raptors across England are being killed

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AI helps robot dogs navigate the real world

Four-legged robot dogs learned to perform new tricks by practising in a virtual platform that mimics real-world obstacles – a

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2024 is set to be the first year that breaches the 1.5°C warming limit

Firefighters work to control a blaze in California in July ABACA/Shutterstock 2024 is now almost certain to become the first