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Earth

Earthquakes could be an overlooked source of underground hydrogen fuel

Laboratory measurements of crushed quartz suggest earthquakes generate huge volumes of hydrogen underground, a potential source of energy for life below the surface – and people above it

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Mind

Reading for pleasure has plummeted over the past 20 years

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A woman eating a bowl of fruit while wearing exercise clothes

Health

Should your menstrual phase dictate what you eat and how you exercise?

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W7E22Y Adolf Hitler at a car show in Berlin, Germany, 1935. Artist: Unknown. Image shot 1935. Exact date unknown.

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51¶¯Âþ recommends David de Jong's Nazi Billionaires

Culture

Book Club: Readers admit they weren’t impressed with our latest novel

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Book Club: Readers admit they weren’t impressed with our latest novel

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Larry Niven on creating Ringworld, a 'great gaudy intellectual toy'

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Larry Niven on creating Ringworld, a 'great gaudy intellectual toy'

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Ringworld extract: Read a section from Larry Niven’s timeless classic

Space

Ringworld extract: Read a section from Larry Niven’s timeless classic

Culture

Speculative novel layers Groundhog Day with existential dreaminess

Physics

Speculative novel layers Groundhog Day with existential dreaminess

Culture

Feather Foiled Print

Mathematics

Artist brings data to life in striking screen prints

Regulars

Complete terracotta prismoid, in octagonal form, eight columns of inscription, historical inscription of Tiglathpileser I, describing his campaigns and buildings. ? The Trustees of the British Museum

Humans

Gripping story reveals race to crack world's oldest script, cuneiform

Cuneiform, the oldest identified writing system, defied deciphering – until 1857. What happened then makes a terrific read, in Joshua Hammer's The Mesopotamian Riddle

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Health

Doctors need to listen to the evidence about bed rest in pregnancy

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Rereading the best sci-fi writers of all time: Larry Niven

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Health

Blood test suggests preeclampsia risk using RNA

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Health

Experimental medication helps treat cocaine addiction

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