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dark energy

Physics

Dark energy must die – these rebel physicists can take it down

Has an expansionist power ruled the cosmos for the past 5 billion years – or is dark energy just an illusion created by a curvy cosmos?

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rainforest

Environment

Life on the edge: Saving the world’s hotbeds of evolution

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aliens

Space

How the sun abducted dwarf planets from an alien solar system

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Charles Beeker

Humans

Shipwreck archaeologist versus treasure hunters of the Caribbean

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Warning symbol made of a sausage with a rice background

Health

Fat vs carbs: What’s really worse for your health?

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solar system

Space

Your explosive guide to the end of the universe

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Comet over mountainous landscape

Earth

Meet the new Earthlings who will take over our planet

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individual

Health

No disease, no natural conception, no mind of your own. Excited?

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industrial civilisation

Humans

What happens when society crumbles and progress stops

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Shari Forbes

Humans

Life amid death at Australia’s new body farm

Human bodies decompose differently in Australia, so Shari Forbes opened the first body farm outside the US

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Humans

The lost women of Enlightenment science

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Humans

I slept for just 20 minutes at a time for 6 months

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Health

5 sleep disorders you didn’t know existed

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Physics

The bold, brilliant woman who championed Newton’s physics

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