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Environment

How counting the true cost of cheap food could make a better world

What we pay for food and other goods doesn鈥檛 reflect the environmental and social damage they cause. But a radical new approach to economics could change that

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Health

Long covid: What we now know about its causes and possible treatments

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Health

How to get a better night’s sleep by hacking your brainwaves

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FG10H1 JUPITER: EUROPA, 1979. /nJupiter's moon, Europa. Photographed by Voyager 2, 1979.

Space

How excited should we be by signs of life spotted on alien worlds?

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Not to be used in museums, exhibitions, or articles about Elisabeth Daynes or the Atelier Daynes. No use in any context outside of mainstream science without the express permission of Atelier Daynes. Front covers or private use require clearance. Mandatory credit. Paranthropus boisei model. Reconstruction of a specimen of Paranthropus boisei. This hominin, which is sometimes classified as Australopithecus boisei, lived from 2.3 to 1.2 million years ago in eastern Africa. P. boisei is one of several extinct species that form an early part of the human evolutionary tree. Reconstruction by Elisabeth Daynes of the Daynes Studio, Paris, France. MANDATORY CREDIT.

Humans

How did Paranthropus, the last of the ape-people, survive for so long?

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Earth

Forget the Amazon 鈥� are these the most remarkable rivers in the world?

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The Makapansgat pebble is seen on display as part of the exhibition "South Africa: the Art of a Nation", at the British Museum in London, Britain November 25, 2016. REUTERS/Andrew Heavens FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY - LR1ECBP1AXUYC

Humans

The archaeological finds that show art is far older than our species

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Mind

How AI avatars of the deceased could transform the way we grieve

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Health

Fresh ideas about the causes of acne are bringing new treatments

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Life

The cannabis of the future might not come from plants

We can now synthesise THC, CBD and other cannabinoids in bioreactors 鈥� these could be used to make new therapeutic compounds with a lower environmental cost

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Physics

A second big bang? The radical idea rewriting dark matter鈥檚 origins

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Health

Sweeteners: The bitter truth about low-calorie sugar substitutes

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Environment

The surprising life and avoidable demise of Earth鈥檚 remarkable oases

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Health

Are you truly healthy? These new tests provide the ultimate check-up

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