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Health

Heal yourself from inside your dreams

New ways to trigger lucid dreams – in which people stay aware and in control of their actions – could let dreams themselves be used for psychotherapy

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Remy Mallett

Health

How you can control what happens in your dreams

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Environment

Slaughter of an American icon: The Yellowstone buffalo cull

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Lovelock

Earth

The father of the Gaia hypothesis shares his greatest invention

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Physics

The maths problems that could win you a million dollars

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Physics

Magnets, boiling kettles and the secret code underlying reality

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Humans

Smart-reading: How to read faster and comprehend more

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Earth

Everest is not the world’s tallest mountain – and here’s why

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Dennett

Humans

Why your brain is like a conscious termite colony

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Health

Cholesterol wars: Does a pill a day keep heart attacks away?

Statins lower cholesterol, which lowers heart-disease risk. The official line justifies many people popping these pills – but the evidence is not so clear-cut

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Health

Cholesterol wars: We may be fighting the wrong enemy

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Environment

The great extermination: How New Zealand will end alien species

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Health

Spotless mind: Manipulating the brain to rewrite memories

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Health

Sibling heroes from the dawn of antibiotics

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