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Health

Rapid bursts of ageing are causing a total rethink of how we grow old

Suddenly feeling old? Evidence now suggests that rather than a long, steady decline, we dramatically age around three specific times in our lives. Might it be possible to stay younger for longer?

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Environment

A crucial methane-tracking satellite has died in orbit

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Health

Women's pelvises are shrinking – how is that changing childbirth?

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Earth

Could natural hydrogen from underground help the UK get to net zero?

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Earth

The prospectors hunting hydrogen along a US continental rift

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Space

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is about to totally transform astronomy

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WHA2R6 Frederic and Irene Joliet-Curie in their Paris Laboratory

Physics

Physicist Frank Close's new book is a welcome rework of the atomic age

Culture

Environment

Fusion power may never happen if we don't fix the lithium bottleneck

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How will Amsterdam become a fully circular economy by 2050?

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Health

Cord blood banking is not living up to its promise

Banking a baby’s umbilical cord blood was once seen as a reasonable way to protect their future health, but much of that potential has turned out to be mere hype

Analysis

Earth

How captured carbon dioxide could help mine carbon-negative nickel

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Space

Physicists are waging a cosmic battle over the nature of dark energy

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Health

Vaccine may treat cocaine addiction by blocking drug's entry to brain

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Health

Cervix-on-a-chip inspires potential new treatment for preterm birth

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