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Health

Why viewing cancer as an ecosystem could lead to better treatments

Researchers have come to see cancers as akin to organisms, existing in complex ecosystems and subject to evolutionary pressures. Now they are targeting cancer’s ability to adapt

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Environment

Will we get to net zero fast enough, and how will the climate respond?

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Physics

What are fractals and how can they help us understand the world?

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Technology

What is artificial general intelligence, and is it a useful concept?

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Mind

What neurodiversity means for psychiatrists and the people they help

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Life

Quantum biology: New clues on how life might make use of weird physics

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Environment

To rescue biodiversity, we need a better way to measure it

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How indefinite causality could lead us to a theory of quantum gravity

Physics

How indefinite causality could lead us to a theory of quantum gravity

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Space

Why are there so many rogue planets and what do they look like?

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What is thought and how does thinking manifest in the brain?

Mind

What is thought and how does thinking manifest in the brain?

We can describe different kinds of thought and how they arise, to some extent, but the relationship between neural activity and the nature of what we are thinking isn't well understood

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Mind

How overcoming negative attitudes to ageing can make you live longer

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We are about to hear echoes in the fabric of space for the first time

Space

We are about to hear echoes in the fabric of space for the first time

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Environment

How an audacious sonic survey could help revive damaged rainforests

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Who were the enigmatic Sea Peoples blamed for the Bronze Age collapse?

Humans

Who were the enigmatic Sea Peoples blamed for the Bronze Age collapse?

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