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Comet 3I/ATLAS from beyond solar system carries key molecule for life

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Tattooing may trigger localised damage to the immune system

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Hunter-gather groups are much less egalitarian than they seem

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Quantum experiment settles a century-old row between Einstein and Bohr

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How Australian teens are planning to get around their social media ban

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AI can influence voters' minds. What does that mean for democracy?

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Why is AI making computers and games consoles more expensive?

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Volcano eruption may have led to the Black Death coming to Europe

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Images reveal the astonishing complexity of the microscopic world

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Could the super-rich be cloning themselves? And why would they?

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Tigers seem to be bouncing back in remote Sumatran jungle

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Incredible close-up of spider silk wins science photo prize

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Experimental vaccine prevents dangerous allergic attack for a year

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Where did I put it? Loss of vital crypto key voids election

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The two standout science-fiction films of 2025

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The six best science-fiction shows of 2025

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The four best science documentaries of 2025

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Stop treating your pet like a fur baby – you're damaging its health

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Dogs may make us more caring and sociable by changing our microbiome

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How deliberately giving people illnesses is supercharging medicine

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Planned satellite launches could ruin Hubble Space Telescope images

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Forming moon may have taken three big impacts early in Earth’s history

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Ancient human artefacts found near caves in Arabian desert

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Why quantum mechanics says the past isn’t real

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Black hole entropy hints at a surprising truth about our universe

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Can viral relationship tests really tell you about your relationship?

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Asteroid Bennu carries all the ingredients for life as we know it

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What would Russia's inability to launch crewed missions mean for ISS?

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Coral reefs have fuelled severe global warming in Earth's past

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We now have a greater understanding of how exercise slows cancer

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A sinister, deadly brain protein could reveal the origins of all life

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Man unexpectedly cured of HIV after stem cell transplant

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Cats can overcome fear of water to benefit from aquatic therapy

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The best new science fiction books of December 2025

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Was a little-known culture in Bronze Age Turkey a major power?

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Ancient humans took two routes to Australia 60,000 years ago

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Why Google’s custom AI chips are shaking up the tech industry

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Upheavals to the oral microbiome in pregnancy may be behind tooth loss

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Africa’s forests are now emitting more CO2 than they absorb

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Plastic can be programmed to have a lifespan of days, months or years

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Our verdict on sci-fi novel Every Version of You: We (mostly) loved it

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Read an extract from The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks

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Why sci-fi novelist Iain M. Banks was an ‘astounding’ world-builder

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Supermassive dark matter stars may be lurking in the early universe

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Origin story of domestic cats rewritten by genetic analysis

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Physicists have worked out a universal law for how objects shatter

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Emergency response needed to prevent climate breakdown, warn experts

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Warming and droughts led to collapse of the Indus Valley Civilisation

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Deadly fungus makes sick frogs jump far, possibly to find mates

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Monthly injection could replace daily steroid pills for severe asthma

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