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Orcas may be to blame for some mass dolphin strandings

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I was accused of killing over 100 million rabbits across Australia

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Sharing genetic risk scores can unwittingly reveal secrets

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Startup is building the first data centre to use human brain cells

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

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Mystery 'whippet' space explosion is the brightest of its kind

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Project Hail Mary is a spiritual sibling to The Martian - and it's fab

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What is a galaxy? That's a surprisingly difficult question to answer

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Mathematics is undergoing the biggest change in its history

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Human populations evolved in similar ways after we began farming

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Why is black rain falling on Iran and how dangerous is it?

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We’ve only just confirmed that Homo habilis really existed

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

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A daily multivitamin may slightly slow rates of ageing

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'Singing' dogs may show the evolutionary roots of musicality

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The first apes to walk upright may have evolved in Europe

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SETI may have missed alien signals because of space weather

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Ancient 'weirdo' reptile graduated from 4 legs to 2 in adolescence

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How an intern helped build the AI that shook the world

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The moment that kicked off the AI revolution

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NASA changed an asteroid's orbit around the sun for the first time

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Chemistry clues could detect aliens unlike any life on Earth

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Inflammation might cause Alzheimer's – here's how to reduce it

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The best new popular science books of March 2026

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Shift in the Gulf Stream could signal ocean current collapse

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Earth is now heating up twice as fast as in previous decades

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The secret to guessing more accurately with maths

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Why Yuri Gagarin wasn’t the first in space – and who beat him to it

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Möbius strip-like molecule has an entirely new and bizarre shape

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Just one dose of psilocybin relieves symptoms of OCD for months

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Two marsupials believed extinct for 6000 years found alive

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Alzheimer’s may start with inflammation in the skin, lungs or gut

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The secret of how cats twist in mid-air to land on their feet

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Why cosmology seems to be caught in a vibe shift

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What to read this week: Poisonous People by Leanne ten Brinke

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New Scientist recommends real-world stealth game LANDER 23

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How to convey amounts of snow to Canadians: use polar bears

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Adrian Tchaikovsky's new Children of Time novel is brilliant

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Sea levels around the world are much higher than we thought

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Top predators still prowled the seas after the biggest mass extinction

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We must close the 'shocking' knowledge gap in women's health

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Claude AI: Why are there so many internet outages?

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How worried should you be about microplastics?

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Phantom codes could help quantum computers avoid errors

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Selfish Y chromosome may explain why some families mostly have sons

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Rare family has had many more sons than daughters for generations

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The real reasons birth rates are declining worldwide

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Your microbiome may determine your risk of a severe allergic reaction

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Why the US is using a cheap Iranian drone against the country itself

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Can Michael Pollan crack the problem of consciousness in his new book?

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