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CERN’s new chief on the gamble that could fix our picture of reality

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Earth has a mysterious triple symmetry that may influence its climate

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Ditch the niceties in AI prompts to save energy use, say researchers

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Atom-based quantum computers are catching up in the race to usefulness

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Keto diet shows real promise for anorexia recovery

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Ötzi's frozen remains may harbour metabolically active microbes

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Why you need to future-proof your brain in middle age and how to start

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How the electromagnetic spectrum opened our eyes to the universe

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The best new popular science books of June 2026

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Hearing loss is bad for the whole body – but new treatments are coming

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Hidden store of manganese may have helped Earth get its oxygen

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New Scientist recommends Togetherness, a radical new view of life

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'Transformative' pancreatic cancer drug doubles survival time

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Do turmeric and curcumin have any actual health benefits?

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A golden age of maths is dawning and mathematicians are freaking out

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How human error became a weapon against large language models

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Huge study of Alzheimer’s genetics identifies new drug targets

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Geoengineering can thicken Arctic sea ice, but for how long?

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The best new science-fiction books of June 2026

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Photons behave very strangely if you try to cut them

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Aim high but don't shoot for the moon, mathematicians advise

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Horror video game gets its creepiness from a quantum computer

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We're becoming more individualistic and it's affecting our love lives

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Mirror life: Scientists clash over threat of lab-engineered bacteria

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Pancreatic cancer halted by virus injection in three patients

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Q-Day could destroy bitcoin – and our retirement savings

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Read an extract from The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins

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Glaciers in the 'roof of the world' have suddenly started melting

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Mathematical AI helps researchers crack 50-year-old problem

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Start-ups are racing to revolutionise mathematics with AI

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3D-printed lymph nodes could widen access to CAR T-cell therapy

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'The book is in the future, but everything is seeded from our present'

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Millions of planets might form around supermassive black holes

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Earth from Above author returns with astonishing freshwater images

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Our verdict on Luminous by Silvia Park: a fascinating take on robots

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Unsettling dance piece explores how AI is warping human relationships

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The late Ian Watson's sci-fi The Embedding is intriguing – but dated

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New Scientist recommends Turi King's expert book about DNA's secrets

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Is there a word for the Wiki page for the Ship of Theseus paradox?

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Capitalism has warped our understanding of ecology and life’s origins

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Embryos made without sperm or eggs reveal why many pregnancies fail

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Wealthy people with environmental ideals are the biggest emitters

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NASA plans a base on the moon spanning hundreds of square miles

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NASA plans a base on the moon spanning hundreds of square kilometres

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First quantum grandfather clock could probe where gravity comes from

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We may finally know why gold stays so shiny

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How a radical new view of life could reveal its origin – and aliens

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Space storms could switch train signals and cause serious accidents

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Space storms could switch signals and cause serious train accidents

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Earliest use of anaesthetics uncovered in Chinese doctor’s tomb

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