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Health

How to target tumours by messing with their metabolism

An old idea about what drives cancer is getting new attention, and showing us how we might be able to stop it in its tracks

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Earth

Of presidents and planets: Neil deGrasse Tyson looks ahead

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Antibacterials are added to some soaps, detergents, skincare products and household cleaner

Health

What are antibacterial agents and should we avoid using them?

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Health

Attack of the household products: Hygiene’s hidden risks

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Health

Dishing the dirt: How clean does your home really need to be?

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Space

Four extreme environments where humans are tasting life on Mars

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Life

Grow with the flow: How electricity kicks life into shape

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Technology

Give your car a conscience: Why driverless cars need morals

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Life

My year on Mars: Frontier life of a space doctor

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Physics

Antigravity: Discovering if antimatter falls upwards

If anything fell upwards, it would rewrite physics textbooks. Amazingly fiddly experiments to test whether antimatter can do just this are kicking off

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The great family brain-off: Solutions

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Technology

Don’t believe the Skype: We never wanted to video call people

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Life

Comb jelly videos are rewriting the history of your anus

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Humans

Were Aboriginal Australians the first astronomers?

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