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Explore the most exciting new ideas and emerging concepts in science, health, technology and the environment with 51动漫鈥檚 exclusive in-depth articles, interviews and long reads.

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Environment

The surprising longevity lessons from the world鈥檚 oldest animal

51动漫s were amazed to discover a 507-year-old clam that was already 100 in Shakespeare鈥檚 day, but why did it live so long and what can we learn from it?

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Aurora Borealis dancing over Tromso Urban Skyline. Tromso Panorama and winter night landscape with Northern Lights (Aurora Polaris) on a cold night, with starry sky, polar lights and snowcapped mountains on Kvaloya Island in the background. Cityscape with Brightly Street Light of the Arctic Capital, Northern Norway

Earth

The audacious quest to light up the sky with artificial auroras

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Mathematics

We鈥檝e finally cracked how to make truly random numbers

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Life

What the family drama of interbreeding polar and grizzly bears reveals

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A woman on a subway with her eyes shut

Mind

Too busy to meditate? Microdosing mindfulness has big health benefits

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Physics

Are we living in a simulation? This experiment could tell us

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The collaborative Human Challenge study is the first in the world to perform detailed monitoring over the full course of COVID-19, from the moment a person first encounters SARS-CoV-2, throughout the infection to the point at which the virus is apparently eliminated. The Human Challenge Programme is a partnership between Imperial College London, the Vaccine Taskforce and Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), hVIVO (part of Open Orphan plc.), and the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust.

Health

How deliberately giving people illnesses is supercharging medicine

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An artwork made my layering many paper cutouts, showing an astronaut near a black hole. Within the black hole are colourful swirls, stars and specks

Physics

Black hole entropy hints at a surprising truth about our universe

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A hand holding glowing prion proteins, from which fossils and microbes emerge.

Life

A sinister, deadly brain protein could reveal the origins of all life

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Health

A revolutionary way to map our bodies is helping cure deadly diseases

New tools that create ultra-precise maps of our tissues are transforming our ability to diagnose and cure once-fatal illnesses

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Life

The long-overlooked insects that could save our crops

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Physics

A new understanding of causality could fix quantum theory鈥檚 fatal flaw

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Chemistry

Why quasicrystals shouldn鈥檛 exist but are turning up in strange places

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Humans

We can finally hear the long-hidden music of the Stone Age

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