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New Scientist

Why aren't young people having sex any more?

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Fossil fuel emissions rise again – but China's are levelling off

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Strongest evidence yet that the Epstein-Barr virus causes lupus

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The 19th-century maths that can help you deal with horrible coffee

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Surprising new biography of Francis Crick unravels the story of DNA

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Sperm are selfish – and so are we

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Smart new book takes an axe to the myth of human exceptionalism

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New Scientist recommends this extreme birdwatching documentary

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Kim Kardashian has wrangled an invite to NASA HQ. Can we get one too?

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Is the future of education outside universities?

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Finally wrangling with the complexity of female bodies benefits us all

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Breaking Bad showrunner uses sci-fi for smart dive into happiness

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Remarkable robot images provide a vision of the future

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Sex could help wounds heal faster by reducing stress

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Huge cloud of plasma belched out by star 130 light years away

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Is a deadly asteroid about to hit Earth? Meet the man who can tell you

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Chemical computer can recognise patterns and perform multiple tasks

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Women prefer to be prettier than a partner, but men want to be funnier

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IBM has unveiled two unprecedentedly complex quantum computers

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Cradle of humanity is still revealing new insights about our origins

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At-home hypnosis relieves menopausal hot flushes

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Women have supercharged immune systems and we now know why

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Static electricity can remove frost from windows using little energy

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Odds of asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting the moon may rise to 30 per cent

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The biggest controversy in maths could be settled by a computer

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Caves carved by water on Mars may hold signs of past life

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Why giving up on goals is good for you, and how to know which to ditch

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Ultrasound may boost survival after a stroke by clearing brain debris

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Falling asleep isn’t a gradual process – it happens all of a sudden

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AI may blunt our thinking skills – here’s what you can do about it

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Could electric race cars soon be faster than Formula 1?

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When rift lakes dry up it can cause earthquakes and eruptions

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AI power use forecast finds the industry far off track to net zero

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Mysterious holes in Andean mountain may be an Inca spreadsheet

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James Watson, co-discoverer of DNA’s double helix, has died aged 97

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Enceladus’s ocean may be even better for life than we realised

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Having children plays a complicated role in the rate we age

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AI scientist claimed to do six months of research in just a few hours

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A distant galaxy is being strangled by the cosmic web

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We may never figure out where interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS came from

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A three-legged lion has learned to hunt in a completely unexpected way

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Digital map lets you explore the Roman Empire's vast road network

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Grafting trick could let us gene-edit a huge variety of plants

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Skeleton with brutal injuries identified as duke assassinated in 1272

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Is the expansion of the universe slowing down?

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New quantum computer is on the path to unravelling superconductivity

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The Trump administration is playing peekaboo with reality

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New Scientist recommends the cult film Hackers – 30 years late

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Human minds abhor uncertainty. This is a problem for liberal democracy

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Here's how to spot the Leonid meteor shower this month

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