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How Glasgow is being redesigned to be a healthier and happier place.
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How Glasgow is being redesigned to be a healthier and happier place.
How do we leave a message for a million years from now?
People whose sickness is linked to certain buildings fear being labelled as mentally ill, while scientists seek evidence that their condition is real.
As the first global treaty on mercury finally comes into force, what have we really learned from the Minamata mercury disaster?
Falls kill over 420,000 people every year. So why don't we know more about how to fall better? Neil Steinberg investigates.
Exploring the real-life and literary figures who fell.
If you’re hit by lightning, there’s a nine in ten chance you’ll survive. But what are the lasting effects of being exposed to hundreds of millions of volts? Charlotte Huff finds out.
A mysterious kidney disease is striking down labourers across the world and climate change is making it worse.
Lengthening daylight isn’t necessarily good news where mental health is concerned.
How do Scandinavians deal with long, dark winters? And what might this teach us about the relationship between our moods and sunlight? By Linda Geddes.
When doctors in rural Italy began to see a surge in cancer cases, they were baffled. Then they made the link with industrial waste being dumped by local crime syndicates. Ian Birrell learns about the tragic consequences.
Radioactivity stirs primal fears in many people, but Geoff Watts argues that an undue sense of its risks can cause real harm.