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Leaders

Health

Personalised medicine is yet to deliver, but that must start to change

Companies are happy to sell you personalised tracking of your biomarkers or a tailored nutrition plan, but truly personalised medicine should be able to tackle the vast differences some people have in response to the same diseases

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Health

This doctor is on the hunt for people with first-rate faeces

Elizabeth Hohmann is very interested in faeces, and spends her days sifting through stools to find those that could make the biggest difference to other people's health

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Life

Ants attack their nest-mates because pollution changes their smell

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Health

Why people can have Alzheimer's-related brain damage but no symptoms

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Space

The best map of dark matter has revealed never-before-seen structures

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Health

Menstrual pad could give women insights into their changing fertility

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Physics

The universe may be hiding a fundamentally unknowable quantum secret

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Environment

Amazon is getting drier as deforestation shuts down atmospheric rivers

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Technology

Most complex time crystal yet has been made inside a quantum computer

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Health

We're getting closer to growing a brain in a lab dish

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Life

Huge fossil bonanza preserves 512-million-year-old ecosystem

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Health

This virus infects most of us – but why do only some get very ill?

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Health

Faecal transplants could boost the effectiveness of cancer treatments

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Life

Polar bears are getting fatter in the fastest-warming place on Earth

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Health

AI-assisted mammograms cut risk of developing aggressive breast cancer

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Humans

Neanderthals and early humans may have interbred over a vast area

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Space

A huge cloud of dark matter may be lurking near our solar system

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Zoology

Rare black leopard photographed in Kenya

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Analysis

Health

To halt measles' resurgence we must fight the plague of misinformation

The measles vaccine has prevented 60 million deaths since 2000. So why are so many children around the world missing out on it?

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Technology

Elon Musk is making a big bet on his future vision – will it work?

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Aperture

Environment

Sebastião Salgado's stunning shots of the world's icy regions

The late photographer's work depicting some of the world's coldest places is collected in his new book Genesis

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Features

Humans

Why is childbirth so hard for humans – and is it getting even harder?

Some think the rise of C-sections means that one day all births will require serious medical intervention. But a surprising new understanding of the pelvis suggests a different story

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Health

The secret signals our organs send to repair tissues and slow ageing

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Technology

Nobel laureate says he'll build world’s most powerful quantum computer

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Culture

Environment

Unexpectedly moving book makes the case for the Arctic

In his lyrical book Frostlines, Neil Shea argues that we are more connected to the Arctic than we might think, says Elle Hunt

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Space

A new 'brief history' of the universe paints a wide picture

Culture

Comment

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Culture

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The Beauty may be horror TV but it misses the genre's point

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More

Space

Why Elon Musk has misunderstood the point of Star Trek

As Elon Musk and Pete Hegseth talk about wanting to make Star Trek real, long-time fan Chanda Prescod-Weinstein says they've misconstrued the heart of the story

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Health

How clinical research is still failing underrepresented communities

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Environment

Do weeds really love poor soil? Not if you look at the science

Regulars

Tom Gauld on the social sciences

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Twisteddoodles on the 'vibes' being off

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Holy prosociality! Batman makes people stand for pregnant passengers

Feedback is delighted by an experiment on the Milan metro system, which involved a prosthetic bump, a Batman costume and some unexpected displays of public decency

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Letters

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