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A nuclear war between India and Pakistan could destroy the ozone layer

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Fully autonomous drones have killed human soldiers for the first time

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A Waymo nearly hit me, but I'm still optimistic about driverless cars

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Robots are about to overtake armed soldiers as the deciders of war

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Iron Age Britons may have removed the brains of the dead

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Frozen squirrel scat preserves ancient DNA from hundreds of species

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The last-ditch plan to save coral reefs from utter destruction

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Dinosaur-killing asteroid impact site stayed hot for millions of years

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A cosmic case of mistaken identity that can only be solved right now

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Why we should all take quantum physics extremely personally

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You don't need to worry about recursive-self-improving AI – yet

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What really happened when ancient humans migrated out of Africa

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What is a ‘normal’ memory slowdown, and when should I worry?

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Wildlife thrives in solar farm built on restored peatland

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Can Apple and Google stop children from sharing explicit images?

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Half the world's reservoirs could be clogged up with dirt by 2060

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Understanding anorexia’s grip on the brain could unlock new therapies

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Unpicking endometriosis reveals how it affects more than the pelvis

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You could get some of the benefits of sleep without having to nod off

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Are we getting to the point where it's safe to gene-edit babies?

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Cuts to US ocean programme will hinder monitoring of El Niño and AMOC

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Flood of AI 'garbage' is pushing open-source developers to the limit

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A chromosome from a frozen rat has been resurrected inside mice

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The maths meme that has been distracting mathematicians for a century

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Becoming a parent may make you love your partner less

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Mysterious ‘cold blob’ in the Atlantic suggests the AMOC is weakening

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How Rachel Carson's Silent Spring changed the world in 1962

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Stonehenge's altar stone probably wasn't transported by a glacier

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The looming El Niño could be bad – but much worse is to come

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Everyone is Lying to You for Money is a must-watch exposé of crypto

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Explore the mind-bending and paradoxical art of M C. Escher

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Escher: The paradoxical artist beloved by mathematicians

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Superintelligent machines may well need us after all

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New Scientist recommends a deep dive into our organs by Giulia Enders

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An encyclopedia formed from AI hallucinations – what could go wrong?

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Alice Roberts: 'We are fundamentally, at the end of the day, animals'

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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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