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Why women with UTIs are frustrated

A urine sample being checked with a test strip (Credit: Alamy)

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Woman eating burger (Credit: Boy_Anupong/Getty Images)

Why flavour begins with saliva

By Chris Gorski

The stork story can be traced back to ancient Greek myths about cranes transporting babies (Credit: Emmanuel Lafont)

An ancient myth that still shapes minds

By Isabelle Gerretsen

A 13th Century depiction of a "leper house" (Credit: Getty Images)

Why is leprosy still with us?

By Kamala Thiagarajan

Sunset (Credit: Getty Images)

The new word for 'dirty sunset'

By Richard Fisher

We can alter composition of the microbes in our stomach through the food we eat (Credit: Getty Images)

Microbes and Me

The bacteria controlling your brain

By Miriam Frankel and Matt Warren

Family Tree

Milestones were developed as a tool to track children's early development, but many parents now celebrate them in their own right (Credit: Getty Images)

Should parents care about 'milestones'?

By Amanda Ruggeri

There have been more cases of certain infectious diseases in children this year than expected (Credit: Getty Images)

The diseases soaring post-lockdown

By Chris Baraniuk

A portrait of Sue Nelson as a child (Credit: Sue Nelson)

Autism: Understanding my habits

By Sue Nelson

Dirt is teaming with friendly microorganisms that can train the immune system and build resilience to a range of illnesses, research shows (Credit: Getty Images)

The benefits of learning to love mud

By Alessia Franco and David Robson

Ocean

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Malacca Strait: How one volcano could trigger world chaos

Rethinking Dinosaurs

2

The bitter dinosaur feud at the heart of palaeontology

Appetite for Change

3

How to make fruit and vegetables last longer

Animal

4

How extinct animals could be brought back from the dead

Animal

5

How donkeys changed the course of human history

Burning Questions

6

What will China's population drop mean for the world?

Immune Response

7

The covert winter wave of Covid-19

Psychology

8

Why some people can't tell left from right

Sensory Overload

9

The pollution causing harmful algal blooms