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First international standards to assess the growth of babies in the womb and the size of babies at birth

Health
Research

Cockatoos go to carpentry school

Science
Research

Obesity in Pacific islands ‘a colonial legacy’ of settlers trying to civilise the locals

Academic’s reconstruction of medieval music inspires new Goldie composition

Superabsorbing ring could make light work of snaps

Science

Students bring historic country house to life with new leaflet

Neanderthals and modern humans ‘overlapped’ in Europe for up to 5,400 years

Before they left Africa, early modern humans were already ‘culturally diverse’

Society
Research

Study identifies EU policy shift on tobacco control after massive industry lobbying

Research
Policy

Oxford research brings to light businesses’ energy use

Policy
Research

A little video game-playing 'linked with better-adjusted children'

Policy

Botanic Garden bids farewell to iconic black pine

Victorian scientists’ drawings of nebulae explored in new book

Arts

8.2% of our DNA is ‘functional’

Science
Research

Six Dark Blue athletes going for Commonwealth gold

The physics of lead guitar playing

Science

Viral relics show cancer’s ‘footprint’ on our evolution

Science

Taking B vitamins won’t prevent Alzheimer’s disease

Health
Research

A-maize-ing double life of a genome

Science

Study pinpoints where and why only parts of Somalia protect the pirates

Society
Policy
Research

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