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A pile of colourful supplement pills lying on a yellow table top.

Mind

The supplement that really can improve your brain health

Most supplements that claim to help your brain have never been thoroughly tested, but one has convinced even the most discerning scientists of its worth, finds columnist Helen Thomson

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Environment

Where is the TV drama to move the dial on climate change?

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A cyclist unlocks his bike on Silk Street in the City of London, the capital's financial district, on 8th April 2025, in London, England. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)

Environment

Are ordinary people fighting a losing battle to go green?

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2HCNTB2 Arctic sea with Arctic remnant ice through the Fram Strait near Svalbard

Environment

Mining the Arctic’s precious resources is a fool’s errand

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Space

Claims of alien life are overhyped 鈥� and miss the real accomplishment

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A company called Colossal Biosciences says it has revived an extinct species ? the dire wolf. ?On October 1, 2024, for the first time in human history, Colossal successfully restored a once-eradicated species through the science of de-extinction

Society

Why claims about ‘resurrecting’ dire wolves are the tip of the iceberg

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A woman eating a bowl of fruit while wearing exercise clothes

Health

Should your menstrual phase dictate what you eat and how you exercise?

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2G4A579 3D visualization of gravity distorsion, physical objects in orbit, space, general theory of relativity, law of universal gravitation, scientific

Physics

Why I still love reckoning with the quantum gravity problem

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Mind

No need to stop the ‘brain rot’: Modern kids aren’t less intelligent

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Quantum computer circuitry illustration. Conventional computers store information as 'bits', with each transistor holding either a 1 or a 0. Quantum computers use quantum bits, or qubits, which operate according to two principles of quantum physics. One of the principles, supposition, allows a qubit to store a 1 and a 0 at the same time. This means two qubits can hold four values at once. The second principle, entanglement, means that the state of one qubit can depend on the state of another. As you expand the number of qubits, the machine becomes exponentially more powerful.

Physics

Quantum theory at 100: Let鈥檚 celebrate its power and provocation

Quantum theory started with a bout of hay fever, and went on to transform our view of the universe 鈥� but its legacy isn't complete

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Physics

Where Schr枚dinger鈥檚 cat came from 鈥� and why it鈥檚 getting fatter

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Health

Doctors need to listen to the evidence about bed rest in pregnancy

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Society

What politicians so often get wrong about science

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Technology

Could brain-computer interface let us inhabit robot avatars on Mars?

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