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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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Why singing, dancing and engaging with art is good for your health

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Hybrid megapests evolving in Brazil are a threat to crops worldwide

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SpaceX’s Starlink dodged 300,000 satellite collisions in 2025

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Why biological clocks get our 'true age' wrong – and how AI could help

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Why did magic mushrooms evolve? We may finally have the answer

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Ancient bacterium discovery rewrites the origins of syphilis

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Our oral microbiome could hold the key to preventing obesity

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Ancient giant kangaroos could have hopped despite their huge size

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Does limiting social media help teens? We'll finally get some evidence

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Strips of dried placenta help wounds heal with less scarring

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Piercing crocodile close-up wins ecology photo competition

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Natural ovulation the best option before an IVF frozen embryo transfer

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Stunning images reveal the rich biodiversity of remotest Tanzania

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We were wrong about being able to 'nudge' people to improve the world

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The internet feels super lonely right now. Here's why

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Peter F. Hamilton's latest is an epic slice of sci-fi – with one flaw

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New Scientist recommends Avatar: Fire and Ash – especially the whale

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Let's nitpick about the physics of Stranger Things, not its ending

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How – and why – we chose the best 21 ideas of the 21st century

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How to spot the lunar X and V

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Can we battle the downsides of a rule-based world, asks a new book

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Our earliest vertebrate ancestors may have had four eyes

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Oldest known rock art is a 68,000-year-old hand stencil with claws

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Ape-like hominin Paranthropus was more adaptable than we thought

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Bird retinas work without oxygen, and now scientists know how

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Alex Garland’s The Bone Temple is brutal, brilliant - and mind-blowing

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Octopuses prompt rethink of why animals evolve big brains

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Bubble feeding trick spreads through humpback whale social groups

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Cross-training may be the key to a long life

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Scientists investigate ‘dark oxygen’ in deep-sea mining zone

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World is entering an era of 'water bankruptcy'

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