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AI noise-cancelling headphones let you focus on just one voice
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Humans
Nomads thrived in Greece after the collapse of the Roman Empire
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Environment
Around half the world could lose easily accessible groundwater by 2050
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Technology
VR headset can give you 360-degree vision like an owl
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Environment
Huge jellyfish invasion could disrupt Arctic ecosystems as waters warm
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Technology
Buildings that include weak points on purpose withstand more damage
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Health
Frozen human brain tissue can now be revived without damage
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Physics
Sunlight-trapping device can generate temperatures over 1000°C
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Chemistry
Fragile quantum entanglement may survive chaos of chemical reactions
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Space
Einstein was right about the way matter plunges into black holes
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Health
Heatwaves seem to be driving severe asthma flare-ups in children
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Life
Orchids feed their young through underground fungal connections
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Humans
A lost branch of the river Nile flowed past the pyramids of Egypt
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Health
Some brain injury patients would recover if life support weren't ended
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Life
World’s only lungless frog species actually does have lungs after all
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Health
Food 'addiction' should be treated like drug abuse, claim doctors
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Mathematics
Incredible maths proof is so complex that almost no one can explain it
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Environment
Solar-powered floating islands could help to regrow coral reefs
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Mind
What is thought and how does thinking manifest in the brain?
Features
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Space
Why are there so many rogue planets and what do they look like?
Features
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Physics
How indefinite causality could lead us to a theory of quantum gravity
Features
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Environment
To rescue biodiversity, we need a better way to measure it
Features
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Life
Quantum biology: New clues on how life might make use of weird physics
Features
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Physics
What are fractals and how can they help us understand the world?
Features
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Mind
What neurodiversity means for psychiatrists and the people they help
Features
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Technology
What is artificial general intelligence, and is it a useful concept?
Features
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Environment
Will we get to net zero fast enough, and how will the climate respond?
Features
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Physics
How quantum entanglement really works and why we accept its weirdness
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Health
Why viewing cancer as an ecosystem could lead to better treatments
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Physics
Quantum to cosmos: Why scale is vital to our understanding of reality
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Culture
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New psychology book reckons with separating solitude from loneliness
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Arielle Johnson digs into the science of flavour in her tasty new book
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New Scientist recommends Michael Sheen in play about the NHS's origins
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Darkly comic sci-fi chiller sees a pet spider turn fast-growing hunter
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