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Health

Cancer’s penicillin moment: Drugs that unleash the immune system

The new drugs that saved Jimmy Carter are giving years of extra life to people with bleak prognoses. Have checkpoint inhibitors turned the tables on cancer?

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Space

Summer on Titan may make its lakes ripple with waves

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Space

Planet Nine hunters enlist big bang telescopes and Saturn probe

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Life

Your immune system becomes like your partner's when you cohabit

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Space

Space solar: The global race to tap the sun's energy from orbit

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Space

Galactic GPS: How dead stars will guide us in deep space

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Ancient maps of Jupiter's path show Babylonians' advanced maths

Space

Ancient maps of Jupiter's path show Babylonians' advanced maths

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How Planet Nine may have been exiled to solar system's edge

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How Planet Nine may have been exiled to solar system's edge

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Life

Solar system mysteries: Where can life exist?

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Solar system mysteries: Could we live on the moon?

Space

Solar system mysteries: Could we live on the moon?

Building a moon base at the lunar south pole could teach us how to expand human civilisation across the solar system

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Space

Solar system mysteries: What happened to Venus?

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Space

Solar system mysteries: What's inside Saturn?

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Space

Solar system mysteries: Why is the sun magnetic?

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Space

Hints that 'Planet Nine' may exist on edge of our solar system

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