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The maths meme that has been distracting mathemati...
A seemingly simple set of rules kicks off a kind of mathematical magic trick, which has kept great m...
Becoming a parent may make you love your partner l...
Parents report loving their partners less within the first year of having a child, but that doesn't ...
Mysterious ‘cold blob’ in the Atlantic suggests th...
A patch of ocean south-east of Greenland is the only place on Earth that is cooling, and it could be...
How Rachel Carson's Silent Spring changed the worl...
Rachel Carson’s look at the dire effects of industrial and agricultural pollution birthed the modern...
Stonehenge's altar stone probably wasn't transport...
A glacier could have carried the giant sandstone at the centre of Stonehenge southwards from north-e...
The looming El Niño could be bad – but much worse ...
Global warming will amplify the impacts of El Niño events, and could also make them much stronger an...
CERN’s new chief on the gamble that could fix our ...
Mark Thomson has taken the reins at CERN just as particle physics confronts some of its deepest unkn...
Earth has a mysterious triple symmetry that may in...
A circle running along the 27° east and 153° west meridians divides the globe into two halves with e...
Ditch the niceties in AI prompts to save energy us...
A UN report warns of the rapid growth in AI energy consumption, but suggests users can improve effic...
Atom-based quantum computers are catching up in th...
A quantum computer made from extremely cold atoms can correct its own errors during long computation...
Keto diet shows real promise for anorexia recovery...
Restricting carbohydrates may sound like an unlikely approach to treating anorexia, but following a ...
Ötzi's frozen remains may harbour metabolically ac...
Researchers studying a 5300-year-old mummified man have identified bacteria that lived in his gut wh...
Why you need to future proof your brain in middle ...
Ages 40 to 65 see a period of turmoil in the brain that has previously been overlooked. But identify...
How the electromagnetic spectrum opened our eyes t...
Our understanding of the electromagnetic spectrum goes back to Isaac Newton, but astronomers are sti...
The best new popular science books of June 2026
The most exciting popular science reads this month explore everything from symbiosis to hormones, wh...
Hearing loss is bad for the whole body – but new t...
From dementia to heart attacks, hearing loss has been linked to a wide range of effects across the b...
Hidden store of manganese may have helped Earth ge...
Computer simulations have uncovered a new manganese compound that could exist deep in Earth’s mantle...
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An exploration of how biological cooperation underpins all life - and why we’ve overlooked its power...
