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Mind

The supplement that really can improve your brain health

Most supplements that claim to help your brain have never been thoroughly tested, but one has convinced even the most discerning scientists of its worth, finds columnist Helen Thomson

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Mining the Arctic's precious resources is a fool's errand

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A cyclist unlocks his bike on Silk Street in the City of London, the capital's financial district, on 8th April 2025, in London, England. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)

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Are ordinary people fighting a losing battle to go green?

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Where is the TV drama to move the dial on climate change?

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Where is the TV drama to move the dial on climate change?

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Claims of alien life are overhyped – and miss the real accomplishment

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A company called Colossal Biosciences says it has revived an extinct species ? the dire wolf. ?On October 1, 2024, for the first time in human history, Colossal successfully restored a once-eradicated species through the science of de-extinction

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Why claims about 'resurrecting' dire wolves are the tip of the iceberg

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Should your menstrual phase dictate what you eat and how you exercise?

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Quantum computer circuitry illustration. Conventional computers store information as 'bits', with each transistor holding either a 1 or a 0. Quantum computers use quantum bits, or qubits, which operate according to two principles of quantum physics. One of the principles, supposition, allows a qubit to store a 1 and a 0 at the same time. This means two qubits can hold four values at once. The second principle, entanglement, means that the state of one qubit can depend on the state of another. As you expand the number of qubits, the machine becomes exponentially more powerful.

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Quantum theory at 100: Let’s celebrate its power and provocation

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No need to stop the 'brain rot': Modern kids aren't less intelligent

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No need to stop the 'brain rot': Modern kids aren't less intelligent

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Why I still love reckoning with the quantum gravity problem

General relativity is an astonishingly beautiful theory, and grappling with why it disagrees with quantum mechanics is a joy, says Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

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Where Schrödinger’s cat came from – and why it’s getting fatter

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What politicians so often get wrong about science

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Doctors need to listen to the evidence about bed rest in pregnancy

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Could brain-computer interface let us inhabit robot avatars on Mars?

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