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Beyond reality: What are we truly made of?

Join particle physicist Kate Shaw for an exclusive virtual tour inside the greatest scientific instrument ever built: the Large Hadron Collider at CERN.

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Physics

We might have just seen the first hints of dark matter

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Physics

We may need a fourth law of thermodynamics for living systems

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Humans

Easily taxed grains were crucial to the birth of the first states

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Mind

Your brain undergoes four dramatic periods of change from age 0 to 90

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seafloor covered with manganese nodules

Environment

Have we found a greener way to do deep-sea mining?

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Life

Sperm’s evolutionary origins go back before multicellular animals

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Environment

Why is climate action stalling, not ramping up as Earth gets hotter?

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Environment

COP30 keeps climate cooperation alive but hanging by a thread

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Space

Astronomers may have glimpsed evidence of the biggest stars ever seen

The distant universe might be littered with supermassive stars between 1000 and 10,000 times the mass of the sun, which could solve a cosmic mystery about the origins of extremely large black holes

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Environment

Undersea ‘storms’ are melting the ‘doomsday’ glacier’s ice shelf

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Life

Ancient tracks may record stampede of turtles disturbed by earthquake

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Technology

Quantum computers need classical computing to be truly useful

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Technology

Grace Chan: ‘How to stay in love after uploading into virtual reality’

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