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Health

Anaesthesia: What really happens when the lights go out

We've used it for hundreds of years, but we still don't know how anaesthesia works. Finding out could lead to safer drugs and unlock the mystery of consciousness

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Environment

Milking time at the den of deadly snakes

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Health

Putting you under: When anaesthesia goes wrong

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Physics

Cosmic uncertainty: Is the speed of light really constant?

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Physics

Cosmic uncertainty: Could quantum weirdness be even weirder?

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Physics

Cosmic uncertainty: Does time go both ways?

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Physics

Cosmic uncertainty: Are there really just three dimensions?

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Physics

Cosmic uncertainty: Are there antimatter worlds out there?

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Environment

9 quotes that tell the dramatic story of supersonic flight

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Technology

Small bang theory: Supersonic flight without the din

Aircraft designs that try to muffle the sonic boom could finally give us successors to Concorde

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Environment

Resurrecting nature: Extinct is not forever

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Environment

The 1830s seamstress who solved Aristotle’s octopus mystery

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Health

Plague! How to prepare for the next pandemic

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Humans

I can control a computer with my mind – from inside a dream

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