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Mind

Why you need to future-proof your brain in middle age and how to start

Ages 40 to 65 see a period of turmoil in the brain that has previously been overlooked. But identifying problems during this time can protect your cognitive health for decades to come

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An employees poses next to an installation by US artist John Baldessari entitled 'Beethoven's Trumpet (With Ear)' at the Saatchi Gallery in central London on May 26, 2011. Forming part of 'The Shape of Things To Come: New Sculpture' exhibition, it is to be displayed from May 27-16 October 2011. AFP PHOTO/ CARL COURT (Photo credit should read CARL COURT/AFP via Getty Images)

Health

Hearing loss is bad for the whole body – but new treatments are coming

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Mathematics

A golden age of maths is dawning and mathematicians are freaking out

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Health

Embryos made without sperm or eggs reveal why many pregnancies fail

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Life

How a radical new view of life could reveal its origin – and aliens

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Physics

Does gravity create reality? A shocking path to a theory of everything

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Health

Can we harness quantum effects to create a new kind of healthcare?

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Life

The Selfish Gene at 50: Why Dawkins’s evolution classic still holds up

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Life

Intoxicating and astonishing: Why ‘The Selfish Gene’ almost never was

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Space

The distant world that is our best hope of finding alien life

A decade ago, we discovered an exceptionally exciting exoplanet that could be the best candidate for hosting alien life. Now we’re about to find out if it really is

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Mind

How I used psychology to come back from the worst year of my life

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Mind

Why autism pioneer Uta Frith wants to dismantle the spectrum

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Environment

Can cloud seeding save us from water bankruptcy?

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Humans

The story of the first human tool: the humble container

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