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Health

Are humans degenerating genetically and getting dumber as a result?

Are we evolving to be more stupid? Humans have a relatively high genetic mutation rate, which has been thought to be driving down our physical and mental fitness – but columnist Michael Le Page finds these mutations aren’t the health risk some make them out to be

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Health

A negative attitude towards ageing is making you age faster

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Technology

The success of machine mathematicians shows us how to be OK with AI

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Technology

Social media is a defective product

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Space

What does it mean if the universe has extra dimensions?

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Technology

The 3 things you need to know about passwords, from a security expert

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Mind

Why are we so suspicious of do-gooders?

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Life

I was accused of killing over 100 million rabbits across Australia

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Health

How a midlife tune-up could help prepare you for a healthy old age

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Space

What is a galaxy? That’s a surprisingly difficult question to answer

Figuring out what really counts as a galaxy could give us insights into dark matter and potentially shake up astrophysics, cosmology and particle physics, says columnist Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

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Humans

We’ve only just confirmed that Homo habilis really existed

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Mathematics

The secret to guessing more accurately with maths

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Space

Why Yuri Gagarin wasn’t the first in space – and who beat him to it

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Space

Why cosmology seems to be caught in a vibe shift

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