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Building Blocks

Environment

Is Earth’s climate in a state of ‘termination shock’?

Cleaning up air pollution has saved millions of lives, but it has also given us an inadvertent taste of a nightmare climate scenario. The race is on to understand how bad it could be – and how to swerve the worst effects

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Two people's faces are shown, chin to chin, with their heads tilted back. A firefighter stands on the face of the person on the left, spraying a hose that is hooked up to the nose of the person on the right,

Health

Can a strange new treatment finally relieve chronic sinus infections?

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Digital artwork showing a lone human figure standing among jagged, glowing purple peaks that resemble an abstract mountain range, representing the hidden quantum landscape inside a solid.

Physics

We’ve glimpsed the secret quantum landscape inside all matter

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A human spine with integrated electronic circuits embedded into it

Health

The futuristic new tech that could bridge broken nerves and mend minds

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Deadly poisonous white mushrooms (Amanita phalloides, death cap) grow in forest

Environment

The deadliest mushroom, the death cap, is still concocting new poisons

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A figure walks a tightrope between two brains, one of which is ordered, one chaotic

Health

The crucial role of chaos in our brain’s most extraordinary functions

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The northern lights, or aurora borealis, in the UK in 2024

Space

Why auroras are so much brighter and more easily visible recently

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Health

Inside the revolutionary idea that we can negotiate with cancer

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Atlantic bottlenose dolphin

Life

We will soon be able to talk with other species. Which will be first?

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A skull unearthed in Harbin, China, turns out to belong to a Denisovan

Humans

An incredible Denisovan skull is upending the story of human evolution

An ancient skull has finally shown us what the Denisovans looked like. Now it turns out they, not Neanderthals, might be our closest relatives, redrawing our family tree and transforming the hunt for Ancestor X

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Physics

Physicist Frank Wilczek’s unique insights on the nature of reality

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Environment

Mining for renewable tech inflicts huge damage. Is there a solution?

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Health

Chronic inflammation messes with your mind. Here’s how to calm it

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Space

6 of the most fascinating moments in the life of our solar system

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