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Humans

Your true self: The future is a foreign person

Present You regards Future You as someone else entirely. See past this mental blind spot, and Future You will be healthier, wealthier and wiser for it

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Environment

Lazy fit animals: How some beasts get the gain without the pain

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Humans

Up and atom: The fights to put people into the periodic table

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Earth

Lightning round-up: The world鈥檚 weirdest electricity

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Earth

Bolt from the blue: Lightning doesn’t form like we thought

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Mr Element 118: The only living person on the periodic table

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Humans

Faith of the faithless: Is atheism just another religion?

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Environment

Make like a leaf: How copying photosynthesis can change society

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Health

Living with a superbug: My next infection could be my last

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Earth

A year on thin ice: Four seasons in a radically changed Arctic

The ice that was once rock-solid is now rotten and see-through in places, weakened by a winter of freak heatwaves. Discover the new normal at the North Pole

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Health

Internal conflict: How we can make friends with harmful bacteria

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Humans

Rorschach and his inkblots: The man, the test, the controversy

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Physics

Reality check: The hidden connections behind quantum weirdness

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Environment

India’s poacher hunter on how he busts wildlife criminals

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