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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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Easter Island statues may have been built by small independent groups

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Cold-water swimming has benefits for the brain as well as the body

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Why memory manipulation could be one of humanity's healthiest ideas

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Why dark matter is still one of the biggest open problems in science

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The science of swimming trunks – including tightness analysis

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The quick and easy ways to stay fit this holiday season

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The 13 best popular science books of 2025

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The 12 best science fiction books of 2025

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Pandas use tools to scratch thanks to a strange evolutionary quirk

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A revolutionary way to map our bodies is helping cure deadly diseases

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Ancient human foot bones shed light on how two species coexisted

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We might have just seen the first hints of dark matter

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We may need a fourth law of thermodynamics for living systems

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The long-overlooked insects that could save our crops

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'Horrific and beautiful' whale rescue image wins photography prize

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Easily taxed grains were crucial to the birth of the first states

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Your brain undergoes four dramatic periods of change from age 0 to 90

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A new understanding of causality could fix quantum theory’s fatal flaw

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Have we found a greener way to do deep-sea mining?

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Sperm's evolutionary origins go back before multicellular animals

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Why is climate action stalling, not ramping up as Earth gets hotter?

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COP30 keeps climate cooperation alive but hanging by a thread

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Extinct animals in Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age make it a must-watch

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Astronomers may have glimpsed evidence of the biggest stars ever seen

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Undersea ‘storms’ are melting the ‘doomsday’ glacier’s ice shelf

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Ancient tracks may record stampede of turtles disturbed by earthquake

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Quantum computers need classical computing to be truly useful

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Common type of inflammatory bowel disease linked to toxic bacteria

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Moss spores survive and germinate after 283-day 'space walk'

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Mouse 'midwives' help their pregnant companions give birth

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Daily pill could offer alternative to weight-loss injections

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Vanishing Y chromosomes could aid or worsen lung cancer outcomes

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We’ve found an unexpected structure in the solar system’s Kuiper belt

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Mosquito proboscis repurposed as a fine nozzle for 3D printing

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Climate heating has reached even deepest parts of the Arctic Ocean

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