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Health

Fine flavours: The unsuspected talents of your taste buds

Japanese flavour sensation kokumi shows that our favourite sense goes way beyond salt, sweet, bitter and sour. We've even found taste sensors in the lungs and testicles

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Life

What if … We all decide that God exists?

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Mind

What if … The universe is an illusion?

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Physics

What if … Most of reality is hidden?

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Physics

What if … We discover we can see the future?

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Life

What if … We learn to talk to animals?

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Life

What if… We find ET?

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Humans

What if … We don’t need bodies?

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Life

What if … We have no free will?

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Health

What if … We came from space?

All our best theories about the origins of life have one thing in common: it started on Earth. But maybe it didn't – maybe we were all aliens once

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Humans

What if … Intelligence is a dead end?

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Life

Nature’s strangest families: Why animals adopt

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Life

Home, sweet exomoon: The new frontier in the search for ET

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Health

Bitter truth: How we’re making fruit and veg less healthy

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