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Why predictive text is making you forget how to write

Typing with 2500 keys is hard, which is why autocomplete has been around in China since the 1950s. But now it’s everywhere – and it’s messing with your brain

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Life

Comb jelly videos are rewriting the history of your anus

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Humans

Holiday brain-off round 2: Test your reaction time

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Old 51¶¯Âþ: How to get drunk rationally

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Holiday brain-off round 3: Build the Tower of Hanoi

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Holiday brain-off round 1: Challenge your original thinking

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Health

Hangovers: What science says about why you feel so rough

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Life

Reindeer riddle: How do you tell caribou apart?

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Don’t believe the Skype: We never wanted to video call people

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Earth

Animal magnetism: Why dogs do their business pointing north

Dogs align north-south when defecating, foxes pounce north-east, and that’s just the start. Where does this magnetic sense come from – and do we have it too?

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Fold your own universe with our cosmic origami decoration

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Quantum computers ditch all the lasers for easier engineering

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Life

Quantum solar cells could explain why plants are green

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Physics

Physics may be a small but crucial fraction of our reality

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