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Humans

You can trust me: Five shortcuts to show that you’re for real

Building up trust takes time. But there are simple ways you can speed things along

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Joe Gebbia

Mind

Leap of faith: How Airbnb gets us to trust complete strangers

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Humans

Who can you trust? How tech is reshaping what we believe

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Trofim Lysenko measures wheat growth

Humans

5 ‘mad scientists’ of post-Revolution Russia

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Health

Getting on cancer’s nerves: A surprising way to thwart tumours

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Environment

Museum safari: The myriad unknown species lost in dusty drawers

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Koltsov

Life

The bourgeois biologist who sparked Russia’s genetics revolution

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Physics

Hiding in plain sight: The mystery of the sun’s missing matter

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A person asleep on a train with their head tipped back

Health

Top tips to get a better night’s sleep and improve your health

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Earth

The next supercontinent: Four ways Earth could reshape itself

Plate tectonics is a slow-grind drama with some dramatic plot twists – these scenarios show how Earth might look in 250 million AD

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Earth

Is positive thinking the way to save the planet?

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Physics

The blushing Englishman who stole nuclear secrets from the US

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Health

Wake-up call: How a lack of sleep can cause Alzheimer’s

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Physics

Riddle of the primes: why do they come in pairs?

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