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Why weight-loss drugs aren't a quick fix

A person injecting themselves in the abdomen with a weight-loss drug using a pen injection system (Credit: Getty Images)

Editor's Picks

The 322-foot-tall Artemis II Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft at the launch complex at Kennedy Space Centre (Credit: Getty Images)

How the Artemis Moon missions will set new records

By Richard Gray and Sue Nelson

Children play in a large round blue dish device inside a white metal ring while others stand by (Credit: Gaviotas)

A 1960s green 'Utopia' tried to reinvent the world

By Sofia Quaglia

The faces of a man and a woman side-by-side, with the man smiling and making a thumbs up and the woman frowning abd making a thumbs down, against a green background (Credit: Serenity Strull/ BBC/ Getty Images)

The surprising downsides of being a cynic

By David Robson

A face cut out like a mask with hands applying illustrated pink bubbles (Credit: Serenity Strull/ BBC/ Getty Images)

The science of bizarre skincare trends

By David Cox

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The Next Giant Leap

In pictures: The changing shape of mission control

By Richard Hollingham

Earth

A freediver shines her torchlight on whale bones, a hole in the ice is visible above the diver (Credit: Alex Dawson)

The whale graveyards that transform the deep sea

By Katherine Latham

A still from camera trap footage showing a snow leopard standing on rocky, snow-covered ground in the Tian Shan mountain range in Uzbekistan (Credit: Gissar State Nature Reserve)

The former Soviet reserve where snow leopards roam

By Michaela Strachan and India Latham

An illustration showing a billboard with an airline advert being painted over with black paint (Credit: Serenity Strull / BBC)

The cities where you'll never see flight ads

By Isabella Kaminski

Two women from The Gambia, Nurse Senneh and Binta Ceesay, in colourful printed dresses and hair covering sit together surrounded by the yellow straw of a rice field with trees seen in the background (Credit: Lena Nian)

The unseen force turning water to salt

By Ekpali Saint

The Next Giant Leap

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The nerve centre running a new mission to the Moon

Earth

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An unstoppable mushroom is tearing through North American forests. Fungi enthusiasts are doing damage control

Hobbies

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Thousands of kites once filled the skies above India's cities. Today the tradition is dying out

Keeping Tabs

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I tried to prove I'm not AI. My aunt wasn't convinced

Earth

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'Predators that just run in and grab, stab and kill': The deep cave bacteria resistant to modern medicine

Intelligence Revolution

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Ground truth: When the Earth moves, AI can spot it

Time

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The ancient reason there are 60 minutes in an hour

Health

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Isometric exercise: The most efficient fitness regime?

Nutrition

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Counting calories doesn't work. Try eating smarter instead