As much as 40 million metric tons of microplastics are released into the environment globally every year. These tiny pieces ...

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This multi-cohort observational study examined whether eating late at night amplifies the damage that chronic physiological stress causes to digestive health.

A newly discovered virus hiding inside a common gut bacterium could help explain one of medicine’s long-standing mysteries: why a microbe found in both healthy people and cancer patients is linked to ...

Monkeys on the Rock of Gibraltar are snaffling so much junk food from tourists that they are forced to eat soil to quell their upset stomachs, scientists have discovered. Gibraltar macaques are ...

Monkeys in a tourism hotspot have learned that swallowing dirt can quell the upset stomachs caused by overconsumption of ...

Gibraltar’s macaques have been observed engaging in geophagy, the consumption of soil and clay, in an apparent attempt to ...

Gibraltar’s famous macaques have started eating soil, a behaviour linked to their access to tourist snacks, according to a ...

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