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Close-up of man's ear

Mind

Our brain ‘swivels’ to focus on sounds from different directions

Many mammals physically pivot their ears to hone in on a particular sound, and now it seems that a similar action takes place in our brain

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Health

Cannabis extract found to be effective for lower back pain

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Physics

Ultracold clocks could reveal how quantum physics alters time

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The top image shows an untreated bacterium; the bottom shows a bacterium after 90 minutes of being exposed to the antibiotic

Health

Extraordinary pictures show what a common antibiotic does to E. coli

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Health

Two-in-one inhalers slash asthma attacks among young children

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Inventor and founder of World Wide Web Sir Tim Berners-Lee
Technology

How to fix the web, according to the man who invented it

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Health

Lung inflammation may make traumatic events harder to forget

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Mind

Novels with a certain structure are more likely to be classics

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Comment

Why is Ursula K. Le Guin’s ‘The Dispossessed’ so popular 50 years on?

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Space

Did a star blow up and hit Earth 10 million years ago?

There are signs deep beneath the Pacific Ocean that an exploding star once sent cosmic rays blasting out towards Earth, and now we have an idea of which stars may be to blame

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Mind

Babies’ brains ‘tick’ more slowly than ours, which may help them learn

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Environment

Atmospheric chaos has sent temperatures soaring in Antarctica

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Health

How fast you age may be controlled by a DNA repair boss in your cells

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Humans

Reconstructed skull gives surprising clues to our enigmatic Ancestor X

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