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Health

Survival of the fattest: Why we’re wrong about obesity

Can you be fat and fit? Everything we think we know about obesity may be wrong – sometimes it could actually be good for you

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Life

The mirror crack’d: Why physics is lopsided

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Health

Weird thought-generator: How society’s fears shape OCD

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Earth

Aliens versus predators: The toxic toad invasion

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Life

One rule of life: Are we poised on the border of order?

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Space

Big bang breakthrough: The dark side of inflation

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Earth

No more primal soup: Creating life without water

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Physics

Mystery physics: What does the M in M-theory mean?

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Health

Heritage plaque: Our ancestors’ health read from teeth

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Space

Shakespeare: Did radical astronomy inspire Hamlet?

From a supernova in 1572 to the discovery of Jupiter's four biggest moons – astronomical discoveries of Shakespeare's time may pop up in his work

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Health

Shakespeare: The godfather of modern medicine

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Humans

Shakespeare: Unleashing a tempest in the brain

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Health

Pharma to fork: How we’ll swallow synthetic biology

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Physics

Einstein’s silence: Listening for space-time ripples

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