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Who can you trust? How tech is reshaping what we believe

We've lost faith in experts, but increasingly rely on strangers we meet online. Is it wise to replace long-evolved instincts at the click of a button?

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Health

Getting on cancer’s nerves: A surprising way to thwart tumours

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Koltsov

Life

The bourgeois biologist who sparked Russia's genetics revolution

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Life

Museum safari: The myriad unknown species lost in dusty drawers

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Trofim Lysenko measures wheat growth

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5 'mad scientists' of post-Revolution Russia

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Space

Hiding in plain sight: The mystery of the sun's missing matter

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Earth

The next supercontinent: Four ways Earth could reshape itself

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Earth

Is positive thinking the way to save the planet?

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Technology

The blushing Englishman who stole nuclear secrets from the US

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Health

Top tips to get a better night’s sleep and improve your health

Sleep scientist Matthew Walker reveals how many hours of slumbering you need, how to make up for a lack of it and gives tips on how to get a better night’s rest

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Health

Wake-up call: How a lack of sleep can cause Alzheimer’s

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Humans

How to be Human: The reason we are so scarily hairy

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Earth

I want to show the courts who's to blame for climate change

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Physics

Riddle of the primes: why do they come in pairs?

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