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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.

Society

Why elite universities like Cambridge must ditch big oil funding

While institutions like Cambridge talk up climate action, they also maintain partnerships with the fossil fuel giants driving climate catastrophe. This must stop, says Zak Coleman

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Society

Digging into the return of an 80-year-old meme, the turbo-encabulator

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Cancer cells. Computer illustration of cancer cells, showing the blood vessel formation providing the cells with oxygens and nutrients. The cells with their nuclei are shown in blue.

Health

Vaccines could usher in a precise and kinder era of cancer treatment

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Woman standing on one leg

Health

Does your ability to stand on one leg predict your risk of dying soon?

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Circulating breast cancer cells. Fluorescence light micrograph of a cluster of circulating tumour cells (CTCs, red) and white blood cells (green) from the blood of a patient with breast cancer. CTCs are an important focus of cancer research because they provide a key target for new treatments. By identifying the molecular adaptations and genetic mutations that allow CTCs to spread (metastasize), it may be possible to develop strategies to block metastatic cancer on a patient-by-patient basis.

Health

Breast cancer is more likely to spread during sleep

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Neutron star

Physics

Elusive exotic matter called a tetraneutron possibly seen in the lab

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In a laboratory experiment, proteins in a meat substitute (left) were less well absorbed by gut cells than protein from chicken breast (right)

Health

Protein from plant-based ‘meat’ may be less well absorbed by the body

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3D faces generated by the EG3D artificial intelligence

Technology

AI generates photorealistic 3D scenes and lets you edit them as well

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Mandatory Credit: Photo by Ebrahim Noroozi/AP/Shutterstock (12997162o) Man stands among destruction after an earthquake in Gayan village, in Paktika province, Afghanistan, . A powerful earthquake struck a rugged, mountainous region of eastern Afghanistan early Wednesday, flattening stone and mud-brick homes in the country's deadliest quake in two decades, the state-run news agency reported Earthquake, Gayan, Afghanistan - 23 Jun 2022

Earth

More than 950 killed in magnitude 5.9 earthquake in Afghanistan

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A selection of flint artefacts excavated at the site

Humans

UK鈥檚 earliest hand axes were made by ancient humans 560,000 years ago

Stone tools found in Fordwich in Canterbury may have been made by an early human called Homo heidelbergensis

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Health

Vitamins and dietary supplements are a waste of money for most people

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Environment

Campaigners propose food alliance to reduce climate impact of farming

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Environment

Europe swelters as extreme heatwaves arrive unusually early this year

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Life

How Prehistoric Planet created scientifically accurate dinosaurs

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