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Physics

How metaphysics probes hidden assumptions to make sense of reality

All of us hold metaphysical beliefs, whether we realise it or not. Learning to question them is spurring progress on some of the hardest questions in physics

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Life

Why you should assume that even the simplest animals are conscious

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Mind

What is a mindset and can you cultivate a better one?

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Physics

At last, we are discovering what quantum computers will be useful for

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Health

Why Lyme disease and other tick-borne conditions are on the rise

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Health

The surprisingly big impact the small intestine has on your health

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Physics

The radical idea that space-time remembers could upend cosmology

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Mind

Four science-based rules that will make your conversations flow

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Environment

The man quietly spending $1 billion on climate action

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Humans

Tutankhamun was only a D-list pharaoh. So why was his tomb so opulent?

He was a minor king, yet Tutankhamun’s tomb might have been the most richly stocked of all in ancient Egypt. Now research is revealing the surprising reasons why he was given such a lavish send-off

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Health

The chilling discovery that nerve cells help cancers grow and spread

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Health

TB’s extraordinary evolution reveals why the ancient disease lives on

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Health

Discovering the marvels of mucus is inspiring amazing new medicines

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Health

Do corporations actually have more control over your health than you?

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