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Astronaut running during sunset at a remote planet

Health

How working out like an astronaut can reduce back pain and slow ageing

The same principles that help astronauts stay strong in microgravity can help us all resist the slow collapse of ageing – and it’s not all about hitting the gym more

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Fossil skeleton of Tyrannosaurus Rex

Life

The shocking fossils that show T. rex wasn't the king of the dinosaurs

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The simple questions cracking the hard problem of consciousness

Mind

The simple questions cracking the hard problem of consciousness

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Abigail Marsh

Mind

This neuroscientist says some psychopaths wish they were nicer

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Technology

A very serious guide to buying your own humanoid robot butler

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UNITED STATES - NOVEMBER 26: Formally-attired audience sporting 3D glasses during opening night screening of film

Physics

Forget the multiverse. In the pluriverse, we create reality together

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Why a Peruvian mountain is becoming an 'impossible' particle detector

Space

Why a Peruvian mountain is becoming an 'impossible' particle detector

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Common puffball fungus (Apioperdon pyriforme) emitting spores into the air. Spores are ejected when the fungus is disturbed, such as by falling raindrops. Scotland, UK. October.

Humans

How our ancestors used mushrooms to change the course of human history

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Frailty sets in far earlier than you’d expect, but you can reverse it

Health

Frailty sets in far earlier than you’d expect, but you can reverse it

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The real reasons birth rates are declining worldwide

Society

The real reasons birth rates are declining worldwide

From the cost of childcare to the housing crisis, there’s no shortage of explanations for the dramatic global fall in the number of babies being born. These analyses, though, are all missing something, says cognitive and evolutionary anthropologist Paula Sheppard

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Space

A crisis in cosmology may mean hidden dimensions really exist

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Space

The bombshell results that demand a new theory of the universe

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Space

A bizarre type of black hole could solve three cosmic mysteries in one

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Space

Crisis in cosmology: If we’ve got dark energy wrong, what could it be?

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