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Should we start testing drugs and vaccines in people who are pregnant?

Health

Should we start testing drugs and vaccines in people who are pregnant?

New drugs are rarely tested in pregnant people, leaving harmful gaps in our medical knowledge, but the tide of opinion on including them in trials is starting to change

Insight

How courts and investors are forcing big oil companies to clean up

Environment

How courts and investors are forcing big oil companies to clean up

Analysis

$What is fracking? (Oil pumps in Bakken Oil Field)$

Definition

Fracking

hominins

Humans

Ancient hominins may have needed midwives to help deliver babies

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Pregnant woman

Health

Blood test could predict when pregnant women will give birth

News

Pregnant woman

Health

Multiple negative events before birth could lead to poor mental health

News

Air pollution halved in first UK lockdown but fell less in the third

Health

Air pollution halved in first UK lockdown but fell less in the third

News

Janis Carter and Lucy

Life

Lucy, the Human Chimp review: The ape that was raised like a human

Culture

putty-nosed monkey

Life

Female monkeys call to males when they see a predator approaching

News

A hydrogen fuel cell tram on a city street

Definition

Hydrogen fuel

Hydrogen is the lightest element in the universe and the most abundant, so on paper, hydrogen fuel has a lot going for it.

Environment

Greta Thunberg's amazing year meeting the world's climate scientists

Culture

Health

Benefits of microdosing psychedelic drugs may be due to placebo effect

News

Environment

Dolphins that help humans catch fish are being disturbed by ship noise

News

Environment

Climate change is leading to premature births in the Brazilian Amazon

News