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PD30RR Humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae), swimming together, underwater view, Tonga, Western, Fiji

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Web of blood vessels helps protect whales’ brains while swimming

When a whale pumps its tail up and down to swim, a wave of increased blood pressure moves from the tail to the head – but a network of vessels redirects the animal’s blood to protect the brain

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Umbilical cord 'milking' cuts brain injury risk for babies born limp

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Environment

We should pursue speculative climate solutions like quantum batteries

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A humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) in the Pacific Ocean off the island Rurutu in French Polynesia

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Whale songs can spread between groups nearly 8000 kilometres apart

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Deepwater Horizon oil spill linked to changes in dolphin gene activity

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Psilocybin therapy seems to help some people give up drinking alcohol

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A pregnant person receives the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine against covid-19 in Schwenksville, Pennsylvania in February 2021

Health

Covid-19 vaccines in pregnancy not linked to miscarriage or stillbirth

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Unlike in other primates, the human voice box has lost small tissue structures called vocal membranes, which may have been involved in the evolution of speech

Humans

Losing parts of our voice box may have helped humans evolve to speak

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Catching the coronavirus after the 34th week of pregnancy may raise the risk of a premature birth seven-fold

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Coronavirus in late pregnancy raises premature birth risk seven-fold

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Physics

Time loops may not be forbidden by physics after all

Physicists find that causal loops, where two events separated in time influence each other in paradoxical ways, are allowed in many theoretical universes, some of which share features with our own

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Health

Why two-thirds of IVF embryos suddenly stop developing

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Health

Advising alcohol abstinence in pregnancy may do more harm than good

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Environment

Deepwater Horizon oil spill did no harm to BP's long-term share value

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Health

Parts of the brain form a circuit that may fuel smoking addiction

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