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Why the right kind of stress is crucial for your health and happiness

Health

Why the right kind of stress is crucial for your health and happiness

Stress is linked to many of our biggest killers, but a growing body of research suggests that certain types can sharpen the mind and strengthen the body. Here’s how to find your perfect dose

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Can you determine your personalised stress score?

Health

Can you determine your personalised stress score?

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Health

Beef is making a comeback – does it fit into a healthy diet?

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How autoimmune conditions can unexpectedly drive mental illness

Mind

How autoimmune conditions can unexpectedly drive mental illness

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Scientist of the Institute for Safety Problems of Nuclear Power Plants of the NAS of Ukraine in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, Ukraine, December 15, 2025. Anatoly Doroshenko

Physics

The man who crawls into the perilous heart of the Chernobyl reactor

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Head of the Chernobyl Meteorological Station Lyudmila Dyblenko in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, Ukraine, December 16, 2025.

Society

My life as a meteorologist in Chernobyl under Russian occupation

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Chernobyl 2022

Physics

Exclusive report: Inside Chernobyl, 40 years after nuclear disaster

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Professor Sir John Pendry FRS, Chair in Theoretical Solid State Physics, Imperial College London, who has made seminal contributions to research in metamaterials and photonics, surface science, and disordered systems and localisation. Cloaking devices, perfect lenses and the super high-speed computer chips of the future are just some of the practical applications of Sir John's theoretical research.

Physics

The invisibility cloak inventor now has better tricks up his sleeve

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I don’t see images in my head. Can training give me a mind’s eye?

Mind

I don’t see images in my head. Can training give me a mind’s eye?

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Cracked blue bowl with equations, stars, planets and galaxies decorating its exterior. It is cracked but golden glue sticks it back together.

Physics

We're solving the fundamental mystery of how reality is glued together

For decades, scientists have tried and failed to explain how the force that binds the heart of atoms together really works. But new mathematical tools are finally prising the problem open

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Environment

Oceans are darkening all over the planet – what’s going on?

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Physics

A once-fantastical collider could answer physics’ biggest mysteries

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Health

The profound effect the heart-brain connection has on your health

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Health

How working out like an astronaut can reduce back pain and slow ageing

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