Antibacterials are everywhere: for the sake of our microbiome, we need to control their use

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In a world increasingly obsessed with cleanliness, antimicrobial chemicals have become a staple in everyday life. From soaps and cosmetics to cleaning sprays and period products, they promise to protect us by killing 99.9%...

David Lynch’s musical creations were as visionary as his filmmaking

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The dark, surrealistic artistic vision of David Lynch, whose death was announced on January 16, was shown through films like Eraserhead (1977), Mulholland Drive (2001) and Blue Velvet (1986), and his TV show Twin Peaks...

How childhood trauma impacts our brains, bodies – and even our genes

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Tinnakorn Jorruang/Shutterstock In 1966, Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu introduced extreme policies to increase the countrys birth rate. This led to the widespread abandonment of children, who ended up in orphanages...

Don’t rely on social media users for fact-checking. Many don’t care much about the common good

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Shutterstock In the wake of Donald Trumps election victory, Meta chief executive Mark Zuckerberg fired the fact-checking team for his companys social media platforms. At the same time, he reversed Facebooks turn away from...

People on Ozempic may have fewer heart attacks, strokes and addictions – but more nausea, vomiting and stomach pain

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myskin/Shutterstock Ozempic and Wegovy are increasingly available in Australia and worldwide to treat type 2 diabetes and obesity. The dramatic effects of these drugs, known as GLP-1s, on weight loss have sparked huge...

Oyster ‘blood’ holds promise for combating drug-resistant superbugs: new research

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Ken Griffiths/Shutterstock Superbugs that are resistant to existing antibiotics are a growing health problem around the world. Globally, nearly five million people die from antimicrobial resistant infections each year. The...

Death shaded the life of this Holocaust historian. The cancer memoir he began in hospital was a final ‘act of love’

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Mark Raphael Baker at Treblinka death camp on a research trip. Provided by Raimond Gaita Mark Raphael Baker began writing his final book, A Season of Death, from his hospital bed, in the wake of his terminal pancreatic...