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Mercury

Space

How Mercury and Venus can guide our hunt for alien life on exoplanets

Earth's nearest neighbours have turned into uninhabitable hellholes. Understanding their transformation will teach us which rocky exoplanets might be fit for life

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brain scan

Mind

Explaining consciousness and the other biggest mysteries of your brain

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astronauts

Space

Mission to Mars: The complete guide to getting to the Red Planet

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koala in hospital

Life

Koalas burned in wildfires can now be saved but the treatment is gross

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Health

How many steps a day do you really need? Spoiler: It isn’t 10,000

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Mind

How people with extreme imagination are helping explain consciousness

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Pyramid teabags

Environment

How teabags became a secret weapon in the fight against climate change

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Yoshua Bengio

Technology

Humans should worry us more than machines, says founding father of AI

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Physics

We’ve seen signs of a mirror-image universe that is touching our own

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man sniffing

Life

What makes a good smell? Inside a multibillion dollar aromatic mystery

Perfume prospectors travelling the world, AI researchers and neuroscientists are discovering the secrets of our least understood sense

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Life

The evolution of Archaeopteryx is stranger than anyone imagined

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Physics

The secret of dark matter could be a particle the size of a planet

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Health

How getting more daylight can improve your mental and physical health

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Space

By Jupiter! How the solar system’s giant made Earth ripe for life

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