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PR1RKC Resting T lymphocytes. Coloured scanning electron micrograph (SEM) of resting T lymphocytes from a human blood sample. T lymphocytes, or T cells, are a type of white blood cell and components of the body's immune system. They mature in the thymus. T lymphocytes recognise a specific site on the surface of pathogens or foreign objects (antigens), bind to it, and become activated to produce antibodies or cells to eliminate that antigen. Specimen courtesy of Professor Greg Towers, University College London, UK. Magnification: x7000 when printed at 10 centimetres wide.

Health

Inside the new therapies promising to finally beat autoimmune disease

Type 1 diabetes, IBD, multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis, coeliac disease and lupus are all caused by the body attacking itself. But new therapies that reset the immune system could offer lasting help

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Life

The story of mirror life: From intriguing idea to unprecedented threat

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Environment

Why geologists can鈥檛 agree on when the Anthropocene Epoch began

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Humans

We鈥檙e uncovering a radically different view of civilisation鈥檚 origins

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Earth

We are finally getting to grips with how plate tectonics started

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Life

When did life begin on Earth? New evidence reveals a shocking story

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Space

When did the first galaxies form? Earlier than we thought possible

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Humans

Why it鈥檚 so hard to tell when Homo sapiens became a distinct species

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Space

When did time begin? Hint: It wasn鈥檛 at the big bang

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Mind

From headaches to tics, how mass nocebo effects spread real symptoms

Social media is enabling health symptoms and mass psychogenic illnesses to spread quickly around the world. But by knowing how it happens, you can protect yourself

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Life

A whole new world of tiny beings challenges fundamental ideas of life

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Mind

How studying babies’ minds is prompting us to rethink consciousness

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Physics

How cosmic stasis may drastically rewrite the history of the universe

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Mind

What the new field of women鈥檚 neuroscience reveals about female brains

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