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Humans

Ready for anything: The best strategies to survive a disaster

In a crisis, your fight or flight response can actually leave you frozen. Training your brain to act could be the difference between life and death

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Health

Odds on: 10 science breakthroughs you can bet on

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Fukushima

Health

Fear is a killer: Nuclear expert reveals radiation’s real danger

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Life

Why be conscious: The improbable origins of our unique mind

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Environment

Lazarus species: Five cool animals we wrongly believed extinct

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Earth

Cutting through the smog: Is pollution getting worse?

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Earth

Cutting through the smog: How air pollution shortens your life

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Earth

Cutting through the smog: 5 ways to slash your pollution intake

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Earth

Cutting through the smog: What to do to fight air pollution

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Environment

Sweet salvation: Stopping orchids from being eaten to extinction

A growing taste for traditional ice-cream, cake and drinks is threatening to wipe out some orchids. Discover how we can save the world’s most beautiful flowers

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Cutting through the smog: How air pollution shortens your life

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Environment

Risking it all in a last-ditch search for Australia’s lost tiger

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Physics

5 impossible things the laws of physics might actually allow

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Physics

Time crystals: A new state of matter that outlasts the universe

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