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A caretaker feeds chimpanzees inside their playground area at the Tacugama Chimpanzee Sanctuary in Freetown, on April 24, 2025. The sanctuary, which rehabilitates orphaned Western chimpanzees, is a leading site for wildlife research and conservation education programs. Extremely popular with tourists, its keepers have defiantly kept it closed since late May. The protest is meant to spur the government into action over the rapid environmental degradation taking place in the national park where it is located. The deterioration does not just affect the chimps, experts say, but also inhabitants of the wider region including the nearby capital of Freetown, home to some two million people. (Photo by PATRICK MEINHARDT / AFP) (Photo by PATRICK MEINHARDT/AFP via Getty Images)

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Women have supercharged immune systems and we now know why

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Women have supercharged immune systems and we now know why

Being born with two X chromosomes brings a host of health benefits, and recognising this could lead to personalised medical treatments for men and women

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Does the family tree of ancient humans need a drastic rewrite?

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The exercises you need to do to reach 100 in great shape

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