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Woman checking her smart watch and mobile phone after run

Fitness levels accurately predicted using wearable devices – no exercise required

01 Dec 2022

Cambridge researchers have developed a method for measuring overall fitness accurately on wearable devices – and more robustly than current consumer...

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Early childhood mortality rates in 1851 (left) and 1911 (right). The highest rates are in red and the lowest in blue.

Online atlas explores north-south divide in childbirth and child mortality during Victorian era

15 May 2018

A new interactive online atlas, which illustrates when, where and possibly how fertility rates began to fall in England and Wales during the...

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Vitamins!

No clear evidence Vitamin D supplements reduce death from disease

02 Apr 2014

New research which examined data from nearly 100 studies shows that vitamin D supplementation, when administered alone, does not reduce mortality...

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Watercolour of a hand with smallpox by Robert Carswell in 1831

Cities of dreams... and death

28 Feb 2014

The fate of migrants moving to cities in 17th- and 18th-century England demonstrates how a single pathogen could dramatically alter the risks...

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Korean Grandmother and Baby

The importance of grandmothers in the lives of their grandchildren

29 Oct 2009

It is widely believed that women live long post-reproductive lives to help care for their grandchildren. Now research suggests that the pattern may...

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