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Environment

Beetlemania: Five amazing beetles from around the world

Whether it is harvesting water, doing origami or hitching free rides on termite backs, the sheer diversity of beetle behaviour is the key to their success

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Space

Mission Icarus: Inside the daring plan to touch the sun

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Health

Maverick or monster? The controversial pioneer of brain zapping

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Humans

The inequality delusion: Why we’ve got the wealth gap all wrong

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Humans

Dreams decoded: 6 answers to the mysteries of the sleeping mind

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Humans

Dad power: The surprising new science of fatherhood

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Life

Return to Titan: Why this icy world is our best bet to find life

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Health

Why dreaming is vital: Unlocking the power of REM sleep

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Health

5 ways to boost your dreams and improve your health

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Earth

How concrete and condoms could turn a greenhouse gas green

We need to suck CO2 from the air to solve the climate crisis, but what do we do with it? A budding industry is turning the gas into useful stuff

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Health

New shades: The controversial quest to ‘fix’ colour blindness

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Humans

The shocking truth of Stanley Milgram’s obedience experiments

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Physics

Why the big bang was not the beginning

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Earth

A cracking idea: The radical way to open up frozen seas

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