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Mind

What is a聽鈥榥ormal鈥櫬爉emory slowdown, and when should I worry?

Lapses in memory are a normal part of ageing but can also be signs of dementia. Here鈥檚 how to distinguish between typical brain ageing and cognitive decline

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Health

Understanding anorexia鈥檚 grip on the brain could unlock new therapies

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A portrait of Mark Thomson - a middle-aged man in glasses, smiling - with a background collage. The collage contains particle sprays, the LHC, and road signs from the CERN campus

Physics

CERN鈥檚 new chief on the gamble that could fix our picture of reality

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Mind

Why you need to future-proof your brain in middle age and how to start

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An employees poses next to an installation by US artist John Baldessari entitled 'Beethoven's Trumpet (With Ear)' at the Saatchi Gallery in central London on May 26, 2011. Forming part of 'The Shape of Things To Come: New Sculpture' exhibition, it is to be displayed from May 27-16 October 2011. AFP PHOTO/ CARL COURT (Photo credit should read CARL COURT/AFP via Getty Images)

Health

Hearing loss is bad for the whole body 鈥� but new treatments are coming

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Mathematics

A golden age of maths is dawning and mathematicians are freaking out

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D6H4GB Implanted blastocyst, artwork

Health

Embryos made without sperm or eggs reveal why many pregnancies fail

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Life

How a radical new view of life could reveal its origin 鈥� and aliens

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Physics

Does gravity create reality? A shocking path to a theory of everything

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Health

Can we harness quantum effects to create a new kind of healthcare?

Experiments hint that quantum mechanisms are vital to the machinery of life. Now researchers are exploring if these effects help to explain the success of an array of puzzling health treatments

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Life

The Selfish Gene at 50: Why Dawkins鈥檚 evolution classic still holds up

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Life

Intoxicating and astonishing: Why ‘The Selfish Gene’ almost never was

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Space

The distant world that is our best hope of finding alien life

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Mind

How I used psychology to come back from the worst year of my life

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