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Psilocybin could prevent common and debilitating chemotherapy side effect
Many people who have chemotherapy develop numbness, tingling and pain in their hands and feet, which can disrupt their treatment. But resear
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Rapid climate change brings wildfire threat to new corners of Europe
Scorching conditions this year have triggered wildfires in European countries that are normally considered to be damp and cool
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Pygmy raccoons teach each other to make toys out of paper and sand
Critically endangered pygmy raccoons on Cozumel Island in Mexico have shown remarkable creativity by making balls out of rubbish at beach cl
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‘Not-quite-primordial’ black holes may explain baffling JWST discovery
The James Webb Space Telescope seems to have discovered more ancient black holes than theory had predicted, and now we have a new way to exp
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Saturn has a big, weird decagon around its south pole
A decagon – a geometric polygon with 10 sides and 10 angles – has been found on Saturn, and nobody is quite sure how it got there
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This week’s new questions
Why hasn’t evolution reintroduced gills in the land-based mammals that returned to the sea? And what is the fastest way to empty a full jug
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What is the optimal way to ice a cocktail? Part 2
Readers continue to share their two cents on how best to keep your cocktail cool
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Why the extremes of climate breakdown will continue to take us by surprise
The relentless heatwaves that have hit the northern hemisphere this summer have made the climate threat real for many – but preparation and
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If the sun suddenly disappeared, how long would life on Earth last?
Readers offer different perspectives on the fate of life on Earth should the sun vanish – and there may be hope for some
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Ambitious sci-fi novel imagines a universe where time flows backwards
People are born old in their graves and get more robust over life, only to shrink into babies who are pushed into their mother’s womb. The a
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The legendary snow leopard comes up against harsh realities in remarkable book
In Kulbhushansingh Suryawanshi's The Ghost of the Mountains, the near-spiritual myth of the elusive snow leopard becomes a way of understand
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Designer floating homes may be the future as sea levels rise
Are these floating houses in Amsterdam’s IJburg district the shape of things to come? Check out Floating Futures, a new series by photojourn
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Twisteddoodles on seasonal bird fashion
This week's cartoon from Twisteddoodles
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Adam Kucharski would like to point out he did not win big at a casino
Feedback goes down an AI rabbit hole after discovering that the internet is making up stories about epidemiologist and mathematician Adam Ku
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Humans can see water, so can fish see air?
One reader delves into whether or not fish can see air – and question if humans can strictly see water
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Venus may have had a moon for nearly 2 billion years
A moon may once have been consumed by Venus, after existing alongside the planet for up to 1.7 billion years
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What remains of the last Neanderthals tell us about their demise
An isolated population of Neanderthals is shedding new light on their species’ final days. Palaeoanthropologist Ludovic Slimak takes us insi
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A nuclear reactor is being installed a mile underground in Kansas
Deep Fission has just received safety approval from the US Department of Energy for a reactor design that it plans to install at the bottom
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Groundbreaking laser of ghostly particles may be impossible to build
A year ago, researchers made a splash with a wildly creative idea for building a laser from notoriously elusive particles, but a new analysi
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Can we really reverse global warming after overshooting 1.5°C?
A UN report says it’s possible to get global temperatures back down to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels by the end of the century, but many
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Are you made of real-world quarks or virtual-world qubits?
Is it possible we’re living in a virtual simulation? Professor Catherine Heymans, the Astronomer Royal for Scotland, does the maths on wheth
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How Ukraine created world-leading prostheses amid the chaos of war
Injuries from the war in Ukraine have forced the country to develop highly advanced prostheses and fit them in record numbers. What can the
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The first signs of dark matter particles may finally have been spotted
Most of the matter in the universe is dark matter, but for decades physicists haven’t been able to directly observe it – that may have just
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The UK just had its hottest summer ever
The average temperature in the UK in June, July and August 2026 has eclipsed the record set in summer 2025, and the record-breaking heat was
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