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Rollkur: Are horses in equestrian sports being harmed by neck hyperflexion?

A dressage horse iStockphoto During the Olympic equestrian events of dressage, horses display dance-like steps that demand high levels of muscular strength and control across

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Midwood: We have discovered an entirely new kind of wood

A scanning electron microscope image of nanoscale wood structures in tulip trees Jan J Lyczakowski and Raymond Wightman Scientists have discovered an entirely new kind

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SpaceX prepares for Starship flight with first ‘chopstick’ landing

A test of the Super Heavy Booster for Starship’s fifth test flight SpaceX SpaceX is making final preparations for the fifth and most ambitious Starship

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Why many studies wrongly claim it’s healthy to drink a little alcohol

Drinking alcohol isn’t good for you, but it is often a sociable activity Violeta Stoimenova/Getty Images Drinking even small amounts of alcohol reduces your life

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Covid-19 hit women harder than men in India, unlike most of the world

New Delhi, India, in March 2020, during a curfew imposed as a preventive measure against covid-19 Yawar Nazir/Getty Images The covid-19 pandemic may have impacted

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Blue screen of death: Windows computers around the world are failing in a major outage

If you see a blue screen of death, it is bad news AlexPhotoStock/Alamy Large numbers of Microsoft Windows computers worldwide wouldn’t boot up today, instead