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The rate at which people metabolise caffeine may have an impact on their weight, research suggests.

The risk of dying from respiratory disease as an adult increases, if you had a lower respiratory tract infection as a child. Read further on Dynamite News:

Academics found that adults with healthy hearts had longer disease-free life expectancies.

Far more tiny particles now come from tyres than are emitted from exhausts but new tyre designs may help

Black holes could explain a mysterious form of energy that makes up most of the universe, according to astronomers. The existence of “dark energy” has been inferred from observations of stars and galaxies, but no one has been able to explain what it is, or where it comes from.

The research was published in the journal Physics of Fluids

Up to 10 per cent of women and eight per cent of men suffer from low libido

Researchers found kisspeptin boosted sexual responses in women and men with hypoactive sexual desire disorder.

The study identified 13,131 cases of depression and 15,835 of anxiety caused by pollution.