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Physics

The exotic quantum effects found hiding inside ultra-thin materials

Superconductivity, fractional charges and magnetic vortices are just some of the weird quantum phenomena lurking in materials like graphene when they get skewed

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Health

How postbiotics could boost your health and even help reverse ageing

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Environment

The search for Britain’s lost rainforests and the battle to save them

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Humans

The hunt for the lost ancestral language of Europe and southern Asia

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This is Lake Powell from the air in 2015 http://michaelfriberg.com/killing-the-colorado/

Environment

Why the Colorado river is drying up – and what we can do about it

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Physics

Will artificial intelligence ever discover new laws of physics?

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Health

Why emotions can feel so painful – and what it means for painkillers

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Health

We are only just beginning to understand what causes nociplastic pain

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Person suffering from headache. Migraine. Light sensitivity.

Health

Viewing chronic pain as its own illness is providing better treatments

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Health

New ways to measure pain can help us communicate how bad it really is

Advances in neuroimaging, AI and wearable tech are helping to overcome the problems we face in having to communicate our pain on a subjective scale of 1 to 10

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Health

The new pain treatments that may finally stem the need for opioids

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Health

What is pain, how does it work and what happens when it goes wrong?

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Physics

Roger Penrose: “Consciousness must be beyond computable physics”

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Physics

Roger Penrose: “Consciousness must be beyond computable physics”

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