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Ants attack their nest-mates because pollution changes their smell

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A huge cloud of dark matter may be lurking near our solar system

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Treating cancer before 3pm could help patients live longer

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The secret signals our organs send to repair tissues and slow ageing

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Neanderthals and early humans may have interbred over a vast area

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Melatonin gummies as sleep aids for children: What are the risks?

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CRISPR grapefruit without the bitterness are now in development

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The best new popular science books of February 2026

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Can we genetically improve humans using George Church’s famous list?

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Why people can have Alzheimer's-related brain damage but no symptoms

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Elon Musk is making a big bet on his future vision – will it work?

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Yawning has an unexpected influence on the fluid inside your brain

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The best new science fiction books of February 2026

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How an 1800s vaccine drive beat smallpox in Denmark in just 7 years

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Our verdict on Annie Bot: This novel about a sex robot split opinions

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Read an extract from Juice by Tim Winton

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Tim Winton: 'Sometimes I think we use the word dystopia as an opiate'

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This doctor is on the hunt for people with first-rate faeces

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AI-assisted mammograms cut risk of developing aggressive breast cancer

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Our lifespans may be half down to genes and half to the environment

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Polar bears are getting fatter in the fastest-warming place on Earth

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Faecal transplants could boost the effectiveness of cancer treatments

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The universe may be hiding a fundamentally unknowable quantum secret

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Think of a card, any card – but make it science

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New Scientist recommends pioneering artist Ryoji Ikeda's new work

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It would be a mistake to rush into an under-16 social media ban

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How your health is being commodified by social media

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Fascinating but flawed book explores how sickness shapes our lives

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Engaging look at friction shows how it keeps our world rubbing along

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Bored of snakes and ladders? Some maths can help bring back the fun

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A remarkable book on quantum mechanics reveals a really big idea

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This virus infects most of us – but why do only some get very ill?

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Ancient humans were seafaring far earlier than we realised

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Huge fossil bonanza preserves 512-million-year-old ecosystem

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We're getting closer to growing a brain in a lab dish

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Most complex time crystal yet has been made inside a quantum computer

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Amazon is getting drier as deforestation shuts down atmospheric rivers

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To halt measles' resurgence we must fight the plague of misinformation

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Our brains play a surprising role in recovering from a heart attack

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Nobel prizewinner Omar Yaghi says his invention will change the world

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We have a new way to explain why we agree on the nature of reality

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Stick shaped by ancient humans is the oldest known wooden tool

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Menstrual pad could give women insights into their changing fertility

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The best map of dark matter has revealed never-before-seen structures

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The daring idea that time is an illusion and how we could prove it

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Termination shock could make the cost of climate damage even higher

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Embracing sauna culture can lower dementia risk and boost brain health

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Mars's gravity may help control Earth’s cycle of ice ages

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Bone cancer therapy unexpectedly makes tumours less painful

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Sea turtles may be more resilient to global warming than we thought

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