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Researchers have revealed how many illnesses children get in their first year of nursery – and why it makes them more resilient to bugs when they start school. It comes after experts decided to put together the first major study of the impact of illness among youngsters after noticing how frequently their own children were

An outbreak of meningitis is being treated as a national incident after the deaths of a sixth-form pupil and a university student. Thousands of students in Kent are being urged to get vaccines and take antibiotics as health officials deal with the “unprecedented” and “explosive” outbreak. Some 15 cases have been reported to the UK

Astronomers have spotted a molten alien planet orbiting a star in our neighbourhood of the Milky Way galaxy that has a surface not unlike a vision of hell.  The planet, named L 98-59 d, is covered with magma and has a noxious and fiercely hot sulfur-rich atmosphere. It has a diameter more than 60% greater

Nellie was 14 and in a relationship when she was asked to send nude images over Snapchat.  She did it, in part, because it was “so normalised” among her friends to send nudes that she didn’t think too much about it. She also knew that if the images were saved or screenshotted on Snapchat, she’d