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Life

Nature鈥檚 brain: A radical new view of evolution

How does natural selection create so much complexity so fast? A bold new theory says it learns and remembers past solutions just as our brains do

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toast

Health

Is breakfast really the most important meal of the day?

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Darwinian Ida

Life

Ultimate family tree: Tracing the oldest ancestor of all life

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Oort cloud

Space

The Oort cloud surrounds our solar system 鈥� why can’t we see it?

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Humans

What makes you conscious 鈥� and where is it in your brain?

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glueballs

Physics

‘Glueballs’ of pure force must exist 鈥� will we ever find them?

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Environment

Animal superpowers: How we’re homing in on their magnetic satnav

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gravity ripples

Space

Listening for gravitational waves from the birth of the universe

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Illustration showing whale and person in white coat with microscope

Environment

The enigmatic whale we can hear 鈥� but have never seen

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eels

Environment

How are baby eels made? We still don’t know

Eels exist, of that there is no doubt. Yet these slippery customers have never been spotted mating or giving birth in the Sargasso Sea or anywhere else

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Environment

Just how are we related to our chimp cousins?

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Space

How we’ll catch a huge black hole on camera

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Physics

Mathematicians play whack-a-mole in the endless infinity hunt

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Plastic fantastic: The quest to create the smartest materials

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