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What it’s like to run the world’s best dark matter detector

Chamkaur Ghag is on a mission to find the 85 per cent of the universe’s matter that we haven’t yet identified. He details his hopes for the major scientific experiment – and what the future could hold

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Which perimenopause treatments actually work?

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Which perimenopause treatments actually work?

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Building Blocks

Environment

Is Earth’s climate in a state of 'termination shock'?

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Two people's faces are shown, chin to chin, with their heads tilted back. A firefighter stands on the face of the person on the left, spraying a hose that is hooked up to the nose of the person on the right,

Health

Can a strange new treatment finally relieve chronic sinus infections?

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Digital artwork showing a lone human figure standing among jagged, glowing purple peaks that resemble an abstract mountain range, representing the hidden quantum landscape inside a solid.

Physics

We’ve glimpsed the secret quantum landscape inside all matter

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A human spine with integrated electronic circuits embedded into it

Health

The futuristic new tech that could bridge broken nerves and mend minds

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Deadly poisonous white mushrooms (Amanita phalloides, death cap) grow in forest

Environment

The deadliest mushroom, the death cap, is still concocting new poisons

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A figure walks a tightrope between two brains, one of which is ordered, one chaotic

Health

The crucial role of chaos in our brain’s most extraordinary functions

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The northern lights, or aurora borealis, in the UK in 2024

Space

Why auroras are so much brighter and more easily visible recently

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Inside the revolutionary idea that we can negotiate with cancer

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Inside the revolutionary idea that we can negotiate with cancer

New research tapping into decades-old concepts is challenging the notion that the only way to treat cancer is to kill every last cancer cell. Instead, scientists suggest, we could try a little persuasion

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Life

We will soon be able to talk with other species. Which will be first?

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Humans

An incredible Denisovan skull is upending the story of human evolution

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Physics

Physicist Frank Wilczek’s unique insights on the nature of reality

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Environment

Mining for renewable tech inflicts huge damage. Is there a solution?

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