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Space

Is our cosmos just a membrane on the edge of a far stranger reality?

Mind

Psychology is revealing how to have a better relationship with money

Life

What the extraordinary medical know-how of wild animals can teach us

Leaders

Technology

Should governments really be using AI to remake the state?

快猫短视频's revelation that a UK minister is asking ChatGPT for advice raises the question of what role these new AI tools should play in government 鈥� and whether we should really think of them as intelligent

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Space

Euclid space telescope captures 26 million galaxies in first data drop

The European Space Agency has released the first batch of large-scale images from the Euclid space telescope, which astronomers have already used to find hundreds of strong gravitational lenses

Space

Dark energy isn’t what we thought 鈥� and that may transform the cosmos

Space

Best ever map of early universe is double-edged sword for cosmologists

Technology

Revealed: How the UK tech secretary uses ChatGPT for policy advice

Life

We may have discovered how dark oxygen is being made in the deep sea

Mathematics

Mathematicians solve 125-year-old problem to unite key laws of physics

Space

Most quakes on Mars happen during the summer 鈥� and we don鈥檛 know why

Mind

Memory illusion makes you think events occurred earlier than they did

Humans

Surprising skeletons prompt a radical rethink of Egyptian pyramids

Life

Fossils reveal what the fur of early mammals looked like

Space

Rolling boulders on Titan could threaten NASA’s Dragonfly mission

Mind

You could train your brain to be less fooled by optical illusions

Humans

Ancient face bones offer clues to identity of early humans in Europe

Space

The asteroid Bennu is even weirder than we thought

Environment

Can we rely on forests to soak up the extra CO2 in the atmosphere?

Chemistry

Metals can be squeezed into sheets just a few atoms thick

Health

Giving blood frequently may make your blood cells healthier

Mind

What makes a good day a good day, according to science

Life

H5N1 flu is now killing birds on the continent of Antarctica

Aperture

Humans

Ancient clay tablets offer vivid portrait of Mesopotamian life

When a vast library of texts amassed by Mesopotamian King Ashurbanipal was burned to the ground about 2700 years ago, the clay tablets were preserved by the heat. Selena Wisnom's new book reveals more

Regulars

Features

Space

Is our cosmos just a membrane on the edge of a far stranger reality?

String theory may be our best attempt at a theory of everything, except that it can't describe an expanding universe like ours. Now a radical new twist on the idea could finally fix that 鈥� but it requires us to completely reimagine reality

Life

What the extraordinary medical know-how of wild animals can teach us

Mind

Psychology is revealing how to have a better relationship with money

Culture

TOPSHOT - A passenger wearing a protective face mask waits for his train at Hua Lamphong Central Railway Station in Bangkok on January 4, 2021, as health officials in Thailand announced on Monday 745 new Covid-19 coronavirus cases, the country's highest daily figure since the start of the pandemic. (Photo by Mladen ANTONOV / AFP) (Photo by MLADEN ANTONOV/AFP via Getty Images)

Mathematics

This excellent guide to the science of uncertainty is very welcome

Adam Kucharski's new book Proof is a life raft in a sea of fake news and misinformation

Culture

Mind

What happened when one woman set out to improve her personality

Culture

Technology

Brilliant sci-fi novel shows robots coming to grips with emancipation

Culture

Environment

An early-warning system for climate ‘tipping points’ is an awful idea

Improving our understanding of sudden climate shifts is welcome. But framing this as creating an "early-warning system" is wrong on so many levels it is hard to know where to begin, says Bill McGuire

Physics

Why particle physicists are going wild for a record-breaking neutrino