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We need to talk about antidepressants

In 2014 eight per cent of students at The University of Edinburgh sought student counselling. This was a 75 per cent increase in three years – the highest seen by any of the Russell Group Universities. This coincided with the decision to increase tuition fees to £9,000 a year. Clearly, the increasing financial strain of […]

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Scientists discover that there are four species of giraffe, rather than just one

It has been recently discovered that there are four different species of giraffe. This comes as a surprise to scientists, as it has been long thought that there was just one species. Within this one species, it was previously accepted that there were nine sub-species. DNA taken from 190 giraffes across these sub-species has been […]