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Health

Our bodies are ageing faster than ever. Can we hit the brakes?

All over the world people are ageing more rapidly and succumbing to diseases that typically affected the elderly. But there are ways to turn back the clock on your biological age

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Technology

‘Most of it is good’: Tim Berners-Lee on the state of the web now

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Humans

How a surge in ancient plagues 5000 years ago shaped humanity

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Physics

No space, no time, no particles: A radical vision of quantum reality

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Mind

What 350 different theories of consciousness reveal about reality

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Earth

How worried should we be about noxious chemicals from dead satellites?

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Health

Everything is perimenopause now – but what if it’s not?

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Health

The extraordinary influence of the lymphatic system on our health

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Physics

The 30-year fight over how many numbers we need to describe reality

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Humans

We’re finally reading the secrets of Herculaneum’s lost library

A whole library’s worth of papyri owned by Julius Caesar’s father-in-law were turned to charcoal by the eruption of Vesuvius. Nearly 2000 years later, we can at last read these lost treasures

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Health

A radical rethink of what makes your diet healthy or bad for you

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Health

Why everything you thought you knew about your immune system is wrong

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Environment

One of Earth’s most vital carbon sinks is faltering. Can we save it?

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Health

What’s my Alzheimer’s risk, and can I really do anything to change it?

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