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Health

Can we harness quantum effects to create a new kind of healthcare?

Experiments hint that quantum mechanisms are vital to the machinery of life. Now researchers are exploring if these effects help to explain the success of an array of puzzling health treatments

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Life

The Selfish Gene at 50: Why Dawkins鈥檚 evolution classic still holds up

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Life

Intoxicating and astonishing: Why ‘The Selfish Gene’ almost never was

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Space

The distant world that is our best hope of finding alien life

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Mind

How I used psychology to come back from the worst year of my life

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Uta Frith

Mind

Why autism pioneer Uta Frith wants to dismantle the spectrum

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2D36Y7E Dramatic clouds and supercell thunderstorm get swept up by a linear storm at sunset during a severe weather outbreak near St. Francis, Kansas

Environment

Can cloud seeding save us from water bankruptcy?

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Humans

The story of the first human tool: the humble container

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Colourful smears across the screen slowly form beautiful flowers

Physics

Where did the laws of physics come from? I think I’ve found the answer

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Health

Red-light therapy does have health benefits but not the ones you think

Red-light therapy promises to treat everything from acne and hair loss to depression and chronic pain. Many of these claims are overhyped, but聽evidence聽suggests it can have healing powers

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Physics

The 50-year quest to create a quantum spin liquid may finally be over

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Humans

A lost ancient script reveals how writing as we know it really began

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Life

Why dinosaurs lived much more complex lives than we thought

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Physics

Is consciousness more fundamental to reality than quantum physics?

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