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Mind

What if the idea of the autism spectrum is completely wrong?

For years, we've thought of autism as lying on a spectrum, but emerging evidence suggests that it comes in several distinct types. The implications for how we support autistic people could be profound

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Mind

The emotion you never knew you had, and how to feel more of it

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Space

The century-long hunt for the gigantic meteorite that vanished

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Health

Low on energy? A new understanding of rest could help revitalise you

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Young Latin woman artist painting sidewalk mural . She is dressed in casual work clothes. Exterior of public sidewalk in downtown of large North American City. Drone point of view.

Health

How to extend and improve your life by getting more creative

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Lichen: Image made using visible light (sun or Xenon flash), the two "synthetic" looking ones are "UV stimulated visible fluorescence" using different cut filters

Environment

How lab-grown lichen could help us to build habitations on Mars

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Space

The essential guide to proving we鈥檝e found alien life

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Health

You can upgrade your immune system, but not in the way you think

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Mind

Test your brain on these mind-bending scientific riddles

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Physics

How 3 imaginary physics demons tore up the laws of nature

Three thought experiments involving 鈥渄emons鈥� have haunted physics for聽centuries.聽What should we make of聽them today?

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Physics

Inside the wild experiments physicists would do with zero limits

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Humans

What the evolution of tickling tells us about being human

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Space

Why we only recently discovered space is dark not bright

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Humans

Did ancient humans start farming so they could drink more beer?

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