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Can we harness quantum effects to create a new kind of healthcare?

Health

Can we harness quantum effects to create a new kind of healthcare?

Experiments hint that quantum mechanisms are vital to the machinery of life. Now researchers are exploring if these effects help to explain the success of an array of puzzling health treatments

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The Selfish Gene at 50: Why Dawkins’s evolution classic still holds up

Life

The Selfish Gene at 50: Why Dawkins’s evolution classic still holds up

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Intoxicating and astonishing: Why 'The Selfish Gene' almost never was

Life

Intoxicating and astonishing: Why 'The Selfish Gene' almost never was

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Environment

First test of CO2 removal with green sand finds no harm to marine life

News

Biologist John Craig Venter poses for a photo inside a Reuters studio in New York's Times Square May 26, 2010. Venter is president of the J. Craig Venter Institute, which conducts research in synthetic biology and the human genome. REUTERS/Jessica Rinaldi (UNITED STATES - Tags: SCI TECH SOCIETY)

Health

The rich but complicated legacy of genome pioneer Craig Venter

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Environment

Coral reefs on a remote archipelago shrugged off a massive heatwave

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Life

First glimpse of sperm whale birth reveals teamwork to support newborn

News

UK-Spanish partnerships are solving pharma’s toughest challenges

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UK-Spanish partnerships are solving pharma’s toughest challenges

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MB05RG Oysters and champagne with lemon wedge and mignette dressing on white plate on blue distressed vintage table.

Life

91av recommends The Big Oyster: History on the half shell

Culture

The best new popular science books of February 2026

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The best new popular science books of February 2026

Readers are spoiled for choice when it comes to popular science reading this month, with new titles by major names including Maggie Aderin and Michael Pollan

Culture

Environment

How lab-grown lichen could help us to build habitations on Mars

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Health

A revolutionary way to map our bodies is helping cure deadly diseases

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Life

Sperm are selfish – and so are we

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Life

This book is a great insight into the new science of microchimerism

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