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Life

How a radical redefinition of life could help us find aliens

Sara Imari Walker, who developed Assembly Theory with chemist Lee Cronin, explains how the theory's definition of life might help us find it on other planets

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How a radical redefinition of life could help us find aliens

Health

How ultrasound therapy could treat everything from ageing to cancer

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How ultrasound therapy could treat everything from ageing to cancer

Space

What the huge young galaxies seen by JWST tell us about the universe

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What the huge young galaxies seen by JWST tell us about the universe
Women and children of the Chiman ethnic group participate in a protest march to Yucumo, September 16, 2011. The Amazonian ethnic groups which live in the Isiboro Secure territory, known by its Spanish acronym TIPNIS, are completing a 370 miles (595 km) march from Trinidad, in the northern Beni province, to La Paz to protest against a projected 185 mile (298 km) long highway that bisects the protected park in the Amazon forest, activists leading the march said. The protesters, who have a list of demands apart from their rejection of the highway project being financed by Brazil, are entering a rural region with strong sentiments for President Evo Morales, raising the possibility of confrontations on their way to La Paz. REUTERS/David Mercado (BOLIVIA - Tags: CIVIL UNREST POLITICS ENVIRONMENT) - GM1E79H0SU101

Humans

The unique, vanishing languages that hold secrets about how we think

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Cyclone Pam in Vanuatu

Environment

The uncomfortable reality of life on Earth after we breach 1.5°C

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People with synaesthesia blend their senses - now we know why

Health

People with synaesthesia blend their senses - now we know why

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The unique promise of 'biological computers' made from living things

Technology

The unique promise of 'biological computers' made from living things

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Peter Singer on animal rights, octopus farms and why AI is speciesist

Environment

Peter Singer on animal rights, octopus farms and why AI is speciesist

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How you can use the power of exercise to feel better and think clearer

Health

How you can use the power of exercise to feel better and think clearer

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Space

We are finally closing in on the cosmic origins of the “OMG particle”

Three decades ago, we spotted the single most energetic particle ever seen, nicknamed the 'Oh-My-God particle'. Since then, we have seen many more ultra-high-energy cosmic rays – and now we are unravelling the mystery of what produces them

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We are finally closing in on the cosmic origins of the “OMG particle”

Physics

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

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Environment

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

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Life

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

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Health

A new class of anti-ageing drugs has arrived – which ones really work?

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