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The wonder particle: How axions could solve more than just dark matter

Physics

The wonder particle: How axions could solve more than just dark matter

Physicists are coming to realise that hypothetical particles called axions could explain not only dark matter, but dark energy too, and more besides. Now there is fresh impetus to detect them

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How counting the true cost of cheap food could make a better world

Environment

How counting the true cost of cheap food could make a better world

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Long covid: What we now know about its causes and possible treatments

Health

Long covid: What we now know about its causes and possible treatments

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How to get a better night's sleep by hacking your brainwaves

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How to get a better night's sleep by hacking your brainwaves

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FG10H1 JUPITER: EUROPA, 1979. /nJupiter's moon, Europa. Photographed by Voyager 2, 1979.

Space

How excited should we be by signs of life spotted on alien worlds?

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Not to be used in museums, exhibitions, or articles about Elisabeth Daynes or the Atelier Daynes. No use in any context outside of mainstream science without the express permission of Atelier Daynes. Front covers or private use require clearance. Mandatory credit. Paranthropus boisei model. Reconstruction of a specimen of Paranthropus boisei. This hominin, which is sometimes classified as Australopithecus boisei, lived from 2.3 to 1.2 million years ago in eastern Africa. P. boisei is one of several extinct species that form an early part of the human evolutionary tree. Reconstruction by Elisabeth Daynes of the Daynes Studio, Paris, France. MANDATORY CREDIT.

Humans

How did Paranthropus, the last of the ape-people, survive for so long?

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Earth

Forget the Amazon – are these the most remarkable rivers in the world?

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The Makapansgat pebble is seen on display as part of the exhibition

Humans

The archaeological finds that show art is far older than our species

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How AI avatars of the deceased could transform the way we grieve

Mind

How AI avatars of the deceased could transform the way we grieve

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Fresh ideas about the causes of acne are bringing new treatments

Health

Fresh ideas about the causes of acne are bringing new treatments

We are finally working out what happens to the skin and gut microbiome when someone gets acne, giving us new targets for treatments

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Life

The cannabis of the future might not come from plants

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Physics

A second big bang? The radical idea rewriting dark matter’s origins

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Health

Sweeteners: The bitter truth about low-calorie sugar substitutes

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Environment

The surprising life and avoidable demise of Earth’s remarkable oases

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