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Mapping the web of disease in Nairobi's invisible city

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Mapping the web of disease in Nairobi's invisible city

Peter Guest discovers how studying the way diseases jump from animals to humans sometimes means wrestling pigs in a slum that doesn't officially exist

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Schrödinger's cat caught on quantum film

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Schrödinger's cat caught on quantum film

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Nice rice?

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Pole alone: The quest for a north without a south

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Pole alone: The quest for a north without a south

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Stomach rumbles start in the back of your brain

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Boil foils

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Shell suits

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Shell suits

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Cold potatoes could counter health effects of red meat

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Cold potatoes could counter health effects of red meat

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Cool your jets: NASA's quantum spaceship is doubtful

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Cool your jets: NASA's quantum spaceship is doubtful

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Rainbow slinky offers a way into Schrödinger's box

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Rainbow slinky offers a way into Schrödinger's box

This wiry mass proves for the first time that we can predict the most likely way in which a quantum system will collapse – and perhaps, one day, control it

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Fat and sugar: Diet of confusion

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Pigeon paradox reveals quantum cosmic connections

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Heart attack on a plate? The truth about saturated fat

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Space salad glows purple in a greenhouse made for Mars

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