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Mind

How neuroscience is exploding the myth of male and female brains

Stereotypes of how biological sex influences ability and behaviour abound – but the latest research reveals a very different story, says Gina Rippon

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lump of silicon

Physics

Here’s my favourite element – what’s yours?

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Eric Alm

Health

I’m travelling the world to collect poo for the good of humankind

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Flerov lab

Physics

Inside the Russian factory making the heaviest atoms in the universe

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Earth

Dark matter secrets could lie buried in ancient rocks on Earth

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Mendeleev

Chemistry

The true story of the birth of the periodic table, 150 years ago

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Chemistry

Three reasons why the periodic table needs a redesign

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Jonsson hunting for gadolinite

Physics

The village where more elements were discovered than anywhere else

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Green protest

Environment

18 up-and-running projects that could save us from climate change

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telescope

Physics

The race to see the start of time in the first light of the universe

A lone observatory at the South Pole has a rare chance to glimpse a secret written in the sky. Spot it, and we will know how time and space were born

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Mind

How to upgrade your thinking and avoid traps that make you look stupid

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Physics

Evidence of new physics could have been under our noses all along

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Humans

How humans evolved to be both shockingly violent and super-cooperative

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Environment

The truth about cheese: The terrible costs of our favourite food

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