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Humans

When a smile is not a smile – what our facial expressions really mean

Smiling and other facial expressions aren't displays of feelings that transcend cultures but turn out to be full of hidden meaning

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Physics

Your decision-making ability is a superpower physics can’t explain

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Health

The flawed experiment that destroyed the world’s faith in psychiatry

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Humans

Jess Wade’s one-woman mission to diversify Wikipedia’s science stories

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Life

Spiders think with their webs, challenging our ideas of intelligence

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Humans

Who invented the alphabet? The untold story of a linguistic revolution

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Life

The mysterious microbes shifting humanity’s place in the tree of life

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Physics

What is reality? Why we still don’t understand the world’s true nature

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Physics

What you experience may not exist. Inside the strange truth of reality

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Humans

The epic ocean journey that took Stone Age people to Australia

Some 65,000 years ago, early humans washed up on the lost continent of Sahul, which contained Australia. Now clues hint it was no accident but rather the first great maritime expedition

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Life

Inside the mission to stop killer asteroids from smashing into Earth

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Health

A radical idea suggests mental health conditions have a single cause

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Health

Trypophobia: Why a fear of holes is real – and may be on the rise

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Environment

Antarctica’s doomsday glacier is melting. Can we save it in time?

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