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Space

The bombshell results that demand a new theory of the universe

Last year, our most detailed map of the universe yet suggested our understanding of dark energy has been wrong for decades. The shock result is reigniting the search for a better cosmic story

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Image from a MAYA collaboration numerical relativity simulation of a neutron star-black hole (NSBH) binary merger, showing the disruption of the neutron star. Credit: Deborah Ferguson (UT Austin), Bhavesh Khamesra (Georgia Tech), and Karan Jani (Vanderbilt University).

Space

A bizarre type of black hole could solve three cosmic mysteries in one

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Space

Crisis in cosmology: If we’ve got dark energy wrong, what could it be?

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A member of the media looks at Barnett Newman "Vir Heroicus Sublimis" during a press preview on October 10, 2019, held for the expanded and re-imagined Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) ahead of the October 21 opening of its expanded campus.

Chemistry

The world’s most elusive colour is worth billions – if we can find it

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Head of research and development, call sign "Shark", leads the KillHouse drone school in Kyiv, Ukraine. He stands in the middle of a room, filled with electrical equipment, screens, wires, and a desk to do repairs on drones.

Technology

How Ukraine became a drone factory and invented the future of war

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Mind

It’s your perception of sleep that’s making you feel tired all day

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Health

Postpartum depression in dads is common – we can now spot and treat it

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Humans

The untold story of our remarkable hands and how they made us human

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Space

We’ve glimpsed before the big bang and it’s not what we expected

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Environment

Putting a price tag on nature failed. Can radical tactics save it?

Biologists have long thought that speaking to nature’s economic value would persuade boardrooms it was worth saving. It hasn’t worked – so what, if anything, will?

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Mind

How teaching molecules to think is revealing what a ‘mind’ really is

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Health

Your BMI can’t tell you much about your health – here’s what can

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Humans

Why is childbirth so hard for humans – and is it getting even harder?

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Technology

Nobel laureate says he’ll build world’s most powerful quantum computer

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