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Menopause and women’s health: why science needs to catch up

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The Death of a Star in the Milky Way

There's a long standing theory that dying stars consume the planets orbiting them as they swell up in size. But while theorised, this has never been seen directly. This week though, a chance observation allowed a team to catch a star in the act of snacking on a planet - in our very own Milky Way.

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