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Health

Good hydrations: Is there a safe level of alcohol?

For many of us it’s an essential social and creative lubricant – yet it’s undoubtedly a killer. Here’s how to get the good stuff while limiting the bad

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Health

Generation clean: Why many young adults choose to stay sober

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Technology

Old toys will self-destruct thanks to vanishing plastic

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Zhang Heng

Humans

The world’s first seismometer used a toad to catch an earthquake

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Humans

Seeing reason: How to change minds in a ‘post-fact’ world

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Health

Hurt blocker: To treat chronic pain, look to the brain not body

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Health

Why some itches can’t be scratched – and how to combat them

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Technology

Intelligence rethought: AIs know us, but don’t think like us

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Alessandra Biffi

Health

Let’s take on untreatable diseases, says gene therapy pioneer

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Physics

5 deviant particles that could spark a revolution in physics

Forget the LHC – from squished electrons to self-destructing protons, careful scrutiny of everyday particles acting strangely may refresh our picture of reality

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Humans

How to think about 2076

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Life

The world in 2076: Machines outsmart us but we’re still on top

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Physics

The world in 2076: The theory of everything is here – we think

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Technology

The world in 2076: Artificial starlight has made energy free

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