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Sugar Tax: The Answer to Obesity?

The Naked Scientists investigate the food that’s on everyone’s lips: sugar. One person in every four is obese and treating obesity, as well as its knock-on effects, costs £5.1 billion every year. Sugar is often blamed but is it the only guilty party?

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Online porn may feed sex addicts’ desire for new sexual images

People who show compulsive sexual behaviour – sex addiction – are driven to search more for new sexual images than their peers, according to new research led by the University of Cambridge. The findings may be particularly relevant in the context of online porn, which potentially provides an almost endless source of new images.

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Y is for Yak

The Cambridge Animal Alphabet series celebrates Cambridge’s connections with animals through literature, art, science and society. Here, Y is for Yak: an animal that is an integral part of high-altitude livelihoods throughout the Himalayas, Tibet and Central Asia.

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