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The race to save India's fruit trees

Some mango trees planted centuries ago are still producing fruit (Credit: Alamy)

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Dementia is a destroyer of worlds, affecting not just the person with the disease but their spouse and family

Dementia's 'invisible second patients'

By Sue Nelson

The Centenary diamond, found in South Africa in 1986 (Credit: Getty Images)

The 'super-deep' diamonds in the crown

By Zaria Gorvett

Are you being "played" in a game? (Credit: Getty Images)

Are you being played right now?

By Tom Chatfield

India's Taj Mahal features exquisitely carved jaali screens (Credit: Getty Images)

India's sustainable cooling solution

By Feza Tabassum Azmi

Sphagnum moss has a naturally spongy texture, which holds onto both water and air – ideal for developing roots (Credit: BeadaMoss)

21st Century Gardening

The quest for the perfect soil

By Jocelyn Timperley

Family Tree

A boy leaps through the air on a skateboard

The biggest myths of the teenage brain

By David Robson

Many parents would like to be a trusted source for their children, especially in the digital age. (Credit: Prashanti Aswani)

When to talk to your kids about sex

By Sophia Smith Galer

Awareness of body ideals can start from a young age (Credit: Getty Images/Javier Hirschfeld)

The dark side of being called pretty

By Melissa Hogenboom

Children with eczema, which causes skin to become dry, broken and itchy, are particularly vulnerable to developing a food allergy (Credit: Getty Images)

The habits that help prevent allergies

By Isabelle Gerretsen

Food Fictions

1

Do some foods fill you up for longer?

Royal

2

What the Queen's English revealed about a changing world

Family Tree

3

What's the right age to get a smartphone?

Climate

4

Are drying rivers a warning of Europe's tomorrow?

Wine

5

How climate change is tweaking the taste of wine

The Immortality Project

6

The messages that survived civilisation's collapse

Philosophy

7

The Epicurean guide to digital life

future

8

The ancient guide for uncertain times

21st Century Gardening

9

Should you feed garden birds?