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‘Hobbit’ hominins scavenged meat left over by Komodo dragons

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A volcano has erupted remnants of Earth's primordial magma ocean

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Audacious mission to rescue NASA's falling telescope has launched

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Orangutan mothers seem to plan playdates for their offspring

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Evocative photos of Canadian Arctic win New Scientist Editors Award

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June heatwave may have killed around 20,000 people in Europe

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Random wobbles in time could finally solve gravity’s greatest mystery

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Synthetic biology may finally be ready to solve life's biggest mystery

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Geoengineering could expose plane passengers to sulphuric acid

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The best new popular science books of July 2026

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What is 'SpudCell'? Arguably the greatest bioengineering feat yet

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Have scientists really made a living cell from scratch? Not quite

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This thoughtful book will make you look at the wonders of trees anew

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Stunning photos reveal the intricate beauty of fungi

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Do you want your underwear with added probiotics?

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The weirdness of neutrinos could completely rewrite particle physics

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A type of fibre that stimulates GLP-1 release approved for use in food

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The best new science-fiction novels published in July 2026

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Slowdown of AMOC ocean current may be gradual and reversible

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The world's fastest spider tops 3.5 metres per second

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The most detailed survey of the universe ever conducted starts now

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This physicist is hunting for the biggest black hole in the universe

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Babies are born with the neural foundations for maths

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I’m the first person whose life was saved by CRISPR base editing

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US government wants to have a useful quantum computer by 2028

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Childbirth for many primate species is even harder than for humans

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Humans sleep the least of all apes – is it the secret to our success?

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Your menstrual cycle may affect how well vaccines work

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Remote-controlled cockroach swarm can now breathe underwater

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I have a 100 per cent chance of getting cancer due to a rare gene

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Ancient human DNA found on cave art for the first time

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Read an extract from Slow Gods by Claire North

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Why I started my sci-fi novel with a world-ending supernova

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Can video games help us better understand quantum mechanics?

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Europe’s heatwave is the hottest and most humid ever

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Can home batteries help save the climate and save you money?

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We’ve uncovered a master gene that switches on human development

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The race to understand how and when Thwaites glacier will collapse

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Where, when and how to watch the 2026 solar eclipse

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If you aren't terrified by this heatwave, you should be

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Record-breaking IBM chip uses trick to cram in 100 billion transistors

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Phages could enable us to hijack vaccine immunity to kill cancer cells

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Bacteria-killing viruses redirect vaccine immunity to destroy cancer

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Lost books by ancient philosophers recovered from 'unreadable' scrolls

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Possible signs of ancient life on Mars are rich in complex carbon

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Screwworm could be the first species targeted by an 'extinction drive'

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Inside Brazil’s vast network of lifesaving free milk banks

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The best sci-fi novel in 2026 so far – plus 6 other great reads

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Neuroscience can't tell us the way to govern people's brains

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Hold the onions – and see if they make you cry

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