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Can floating data centres meet AI's huge energy demand?

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Where did the laws of physics come from? I think I've found the answer

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Huge study of ancient British DNA reveals only minor Roman influence

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Tiny 'metajets' could use light to steer sails for interstellar travel

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A vast dam across the Bering Strait could stop the AMOC collapsing

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US government releases huge batch of UFO files

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Doubling their genomes may have helped plants survive mass extinctions

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Fire is spreading in the Chernobyl exclusion zone after drone crash

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There’s a been a sudden increase in the rate of sea level rise

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There has been a sudden increase in the rate of sea level rise

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Slow breathing can calm the mind without any need for mindfulness

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Neanderthal 'kneeprint' found next to mysterious stalagmite circle

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The mathematician who doesn’t exist

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Hantavirus outbreak will not cause a covid-style pandemic, says WHO

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PCOS postpones perimenopause and allows pregnancies at older ages

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Coffee's mood-boosting effects aren't just down to caffeine

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The best new popular science books of May 2026

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Pressure from individual particles measured for the first time

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Dating over 50 is probably on the rise – but we know little about it

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New Scientist recommends Attenborough documentary Making Life on Earth

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Former Soviet scientific megastructures captured in striking photos

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Bronze Age Britons fashioned copper-mining tools out of old bones

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What to read this week: the excellent Beyond Belief by Helen Pearson

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Less nostalgia, more pain: scientists study 1763 Eurovision songs

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David Attenborough is one of a kind, for better or worse

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Red-light therapy does have health benefits but not the ones you think

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Deforestation could trigger Amazon tipping point in the 2030s

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Huge landslide in Alaska caused 481m-high tsunami

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Robin Wall Kimmerer's Braiding Sweetgrass is still an essential read

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Read the winner of this year’s Young Science Writer Award

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Extinct relative of koalas discovered in Western Australia

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The 50-year quest to create a quantum spin liquid may finally be over

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Backlash builds over NHS plan to hide source code from AI hacking risk

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Where has the deadly hantavirus come from and how does it spread?

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Hantavirus: Where has the deadly cruise ship outbreak come from?

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Woman in cancer remission without treatment in highly unusual case

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The problem of cosmic inflation and how to solve it

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Man destined to get Alzheimer’s saved by accidental heat therapy

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Man destined for Alzheimer's may have been saved by accidental therapy

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Quantum computers simulated their biggest molecule yet – with help

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Honey has been used as medicine for centuries – does it really work?

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A lost ancient script reveals how writing as we know it really began

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Tiny frozen world unexpectedly appears to have an atmosphere

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300-year-old experiment could become world's best dark matter detector

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The greatest David Attenborough documentaries you really need to watch

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Prebiotic chewing gum could be helpful for gum disease

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Smart underwear detects lactose intolerance by tracking your farts

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2026 will be the hottest year on record, leading scientist predicts

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NHS England rushes to hide software over AI hacking fears

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The 4 biggest myths about hydration, according to an expert

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