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Health

What are microplastics doing to your brain? We’re starting to find out

The average human brain contains around 7 grams of plastic, but it’s unclear how this affects us. Now animal studies are revealing links to poor cognition and weird behaviour

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Mathematics

What 7 fiendishly hard puzzles tell us about the nature of mathematics

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Mind

How to harness your emotions for a happier, calmer life

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Mind

How a simple walk can bust stress, boost cognition and fight diseases

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Health

How vanishing Y chromosomes could help explain men’s ill health

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Physics

The ‘impossible’ particle hinting at the universe’s biggest secrets

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Space

How astonishing observatories could do big physics from the moon

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Life

Can a strange state of matter explain what life is – and how it began?

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Health

A dramatic rethink of Parkinson’s offers new hope for treatment

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Physics

Where exactly does the quantum world end and concrete reality begin?

Quantum effects like superposition and entanglement have long been seen in single particles, but physicists are on a quest to find out just how big an object can be before it loses its quantumness

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Physics

Could the ancient Greeks have invented quantum theory?

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Physics

What exactly would a full-scale quantum computer be useful for?

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Physics

Carlo Rovelli on what we get wrong about the origins of quantum theory

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Physics

What does quantum theory really tell us about the nature of reality?

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