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Technology

An audacious new plan will make all science free. Can it work?

We fund scientific research through our taxes but often have to pay a hefty fee to read its findings. An uprising aims to bring the knowledge paywall crashing down

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Life

Smarty plants: They can learn, adapt and remember without brains

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Life

37 trillion pieces of you: The plan to map the entire human body

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Mind

We’ve got thinking all wrong. This is how your mind really works

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Technology

How to 3D-print a living, beating heart

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Humans

The Galapagos of the Indian Ocean: Voyage to a forgotten paradise

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Physics

Einstein was wrong: Why ‘normal’ physics can’t explain reality

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Life

The day a Siberian tiger nearly killed me

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Mind

There’s a dark side to self-control. Here’s why you should loosen up

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Space

Weather forecasts from alien worlds are in – and it’s wild out there

We have seen violent winds, clouds of glass and ruby hailstones. In fact, weather on exoplanets can be so extreme that it can make or break their habitability

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Physics

Women in physics: Why there’s a problem and how we can solve it

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Mind

The truth behind ASMR and the craze for videos causing ‘head orgasms’

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Earth

Why Earth’s water could be older than Earth itself

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Humans

Don’t teach kids – I’ve shown their hive mind can learn on its own

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