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Space

Lab imitations of the unobservable cosmos can be genuinely insightful

Physics

Can recreating black holes in the lab solve the puzzles of space-time?

Life

How talking to your future self can improve your health and happiness

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Environment

Inside the fight for Europe’s first wild river national park

Leaders

Space

Lab imitations of the unobservable cosmos can be genuinely insightful

Despite the obvious caveats, physicists are right to use fluids and other physical analogues to search for fresh insights about extreme cosmic phenomena, from black holes to the big bang

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Life

Hundreds of species new to science discovered in South-East Asia

A WWF report catalogues a cornucopia of plants and animals newly identified in the Greater Mekong region in 2021 and 2022, but many of them are endangered

Technology

Ethereum closed a big security hole with its energy-saving update

Health

Covid-19 booster vaccines should leave out original spike protein

Physics

Fundamental law of physics demonstrated using quantum objects

Life

Bat guano has been sculpting caves in Brazil for thousands of years

Earth

Tonga volcano eruption disrupted satellites halfway around the world

Life

Bowhead whales may resist cancer thanks to superior DNA repair ability

Health

CRISPR-edited cells could help people survive chronic heart failure

Environment

US desert grassland collapse is linked to changes in the Pacific Ocean

Technology

Software update for world鈥檚 wind farms could power millions more homes

Life

Octopuses may have nightmares about predators attacking them

Life

Rare plant turns carnivorous when it is low on a key nutrient

Technology

Memcomputer chips could solve tasks that defeat conventional computers

Life

Wolves are scaring smaller predators into deadly conflict with humans

Humans

Humans were kissing at least 4500 years ago, reveal ancient texts

Technology

Stretchy electronic skin responds to touch and pressure like real skin

Humans

Stone Age blueprints are the oldest architectural plans ever found

Life

Comb jellies, not sponges, might be the oldest animal group after all

Health

鈥楽hin splints鈥� may not be caused by running up and down hills

Mind

Racing drivers blink at the same points when going round a track

Technology

This house is made from recycled diapers mixed into concrete

Chemistry

Octopus-inspired ink changes colour when exposed to light

Analysis

Health

Do new Alzheimer’s drugs signal the end of the condition?

Antibody treatments that target amyloid plaques in the brains of people with Alzheimer's have shown promise in trials, but questions about their side effects and practicality remain

Space

Why sending messages to extraterrestrials is controversial

Space

Questions I dread: How did the universe begin, and what is space-time?

Aperture

$P525 - Human femur, with a severe fracture united by new bone, prepared by John Hunter between 1760 and 1793$

Life

See the Hunterian Museum’s weird and wonderful anatomical curiosities

Open again after a five-year hiatus, the London museum, named after the 18th-century surgeon John Hunter, contains everything from a baby crocodile emerging from its egg, to a human femur

Features

Physics

Can recreating black holes in the lab solve the puzzles of space-time?

Researchers are building models of everything from black holes to the big bang in tanks of liquid. Now some claim these surprisingly simple models are showing us where our theories of space-time are wrong

Environment

Inside the fight for Europe’s first wild river national park

Life

How talking to your future self can improve your health and happiness

Culture

Comment

The Ferryman review: A profound new take on a sci-fi staple

Justin Cronin's new science fiction novel transmutes the familiar trope of a utopia with a dark secret into a deep story with humanity at its centre. Read along with us at 快猫短视频's book club

Comment

Allergic review: A great guide explores a complex medical mystery

Comment

快猫短视频 recommends: Martin MacInnes’s transcendent In Ascension

Comment

Titanium Noir review: Gripping, philosophical science fiction

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Mind

How listening to audiobooks may be making us more gullible

More and more of us are turning to audiobooks for our reading, but a new study suggests that when we listen to a text rather than read it, we may engage in less deliberative thinking, says David Robson

Tom Gauld: The temptation of Ada and Steve

Twisteddoodles on each individual’s contribution to the group project