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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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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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COP30: The UN climate summits are no longer fit for purpose

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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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