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Health

Should your menstrual phase dictate what you eat and how you exercise?

The idea of varying your lifestyle throughout your menstrual cycle to help relieve PMS or period pain seems intuitive, but the evidence reveals a nuanced picture, finds columnist Alexandra Thompson

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Physics

Why I still love reckoning with the quantum gravity problem

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Physics

Where Schrödinger’s cat came from – and why it’s getting fatter

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https://science.nasa.gov/mission/mars-2020-perseverance/ NASA?s Perseverance Mars rover took this selfie, made up of 62 individual images, on July 23. A rock nicknamed ?Cheyava Falls,? which has features that may bear on the question of whether the Red Planet was long ago home to microscopic life, is to the left of the rover near the center of the image. NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS

Technology

Could brain-computer interface let us inhabit robot avatars on Mars?

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2CBM20E Humorous blue public toilet sign, Koh Samui, Thailand

Environment

How toilet waste is being rebranded as a valuable resource

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Mind

Why you should slow down your brain’s ageing – and how to do it

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Visual impression of the ultra-high energy neutrino event observed in KM3NeT/ARCA. The colours indicate the light seen by the ?eyes? on each module, where the different colours represent different observation times. The almost horizontally reconstructed track of the particle is shown as a line from right to left. Courtesy KM3NeT.

Physics

Why particle physicists are going wild for a record-breaking neutrino

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PPW5E4 The Nose art installation in St. Lorenz, Austria

Health

How we could achieve dog-level sense of smell – and what it would mean

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High quality 3D rendered image, perfectly usable for topics related to big data, global networks, international flight routes or the spread of a pandemic / computer virus. Textures courtesy of NASA: https://visibleearth.nasa.gov/images/55167/earths-city-lights, https://visibleearth.nasa.gov/images/73934/topography

Technology

How Moore's law led us to a flawed vision of the future

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Physics

Why exactly is the quantum world so weird?

We can describe the quantum realm using straightforward mathematics – but once we try to translate these ideas into the real world, things get weird. Our quantum columnist Karmela Padavic-Callaghan explains why

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Environment

A spat over sand eels threatens puffins and other iconic seabirds

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Physics

How does astronomy fit into astrophysics – and does it matter?

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Technology

How the future rise of AI lawyers could force Big Oil to pay up

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Society

How futurism took an abrupt right turn in the 20th century

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