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Health

Why emotions can feel so painful – and what it means for painkillers

A new understanding of the link between emotions and physical pain is helping identify the root causes of our pain, and why physical and emotional pain so often coexist

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Health

New ways to measure pain can help us communicate how bad it really is

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Health

Viewing chronic pain as its own illness is providing better treatments

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Anthrax bacteria in lung. Coloured scanning electron micrograph (SEM) of a cluster of anthrax bacteria (Bacillus anthracis) in a capillary of the lung. These rod-shaped, Gram-positive bacteria are highly pathogenic. Commonly an infection of livestock, B. anthracis is transmitted to humans by contact with contaminated animal hair, hides or excrement. Two forms of the disease occur: pneumonia in the lungs (woolsorter's disease), and cutaneous anthrax, which causes a large boil at the site of the bacteria's entry. Antibiotic treatment, if prompt, may be effective for the skin infection. Pulmonary anthrax is fatal in most cases. Magnification: x540 at 6x7cm size. x1750 at 7.5x9.5

Health

The new pain treatments that may finally stem the need for opioids

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Health

What is pain, how does it work and what happens when it goes wrong?

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Roger Penrose in Oxford 2022

Physics

Roger Penrose: "Consciousness must be beyond computable physics"

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Roger Penrose in Oxford 2022

Physics

Roger Penrose: "Consciousness must be beyond computable physics"

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How JWST could find signs of alien life in exoplanet atmospheres

Space

How JWST could find signs of alien life in exoplanet atmospheres

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What age do you really become an adult? And why it’s vital to know

Health

What age do you really become an adult? And why it’s vital to know

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How flowering plants beat bloom-free gymnosperms to world dominance

Life

How flowering plants beat bloom-free gymnosperms to world dominance

Flowerless gymnosperms, such as conifer and ginkgo, ruled the Jurassic world before their flowering rivals, the angiosperms, became dominant. What caused the fall of one and the rise of the other?

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Humans

Six archaeological discoveries to rival Tutankhamun's tomb

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Humans

How technology is revolutionising our understanding of ancient Egypt

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Health

The truth about the foods said to boost your immune system

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Physics

The cosmologist who claims to have evidence for the multiverse

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