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Table of contents
Leaders
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Life
World's oldest fossils might turn out to just be ancient rocks
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Life
Mantis shrimps punch with the force of a bullet - and now we know how
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Space
Cosmic supercluster is largest object ever seen in the early universe
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Life
Old honeybees make a drumming sound to get young slackers working
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Technology
AI tries to help you protect your children from cyberbullying
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Mind
Your brain is like 100 billion mini-computers all working together
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Mind
Your genes affect which university you go to but that’s no surprise
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Space
7 explanations for why mysterious radio bursts are coming from space
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Space
Salty Martian groundwater may have enough oxygen to support life
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Technology
Tiny supercomputers could be made from the skeleton inside your cells
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Health
Hot baths could improve depression as much as physical exercise
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Technology
World’s longest sea bridge opens between Hong Kong and mainland China
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Health
WHO calls for ban on ‘virginity tests’, including those used by police
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Technology
Inside the European Union's high-tech nerve agent attack simulation
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Technology
President Trump says the US will pull out of a nuclear treaty
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Physics
Nobel laureates sign letter expressing Brexit concerns
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Space
The BepiColombo spacecraft is on its way to Mercury
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Technology
Huge online Trolley Problem survey reveals people's cultural bias
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Earth
Weird rocks in Australia are a missing piece of the Grand Canyon
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Technology
AI makes new video games by watching people play Super Mario and Kirby
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Analysis
Aperture
Features
Mind
Memory special: What happens to your memories while you sleep?
Features
Mind
Memory special: Can you choose what to forget?
Features
Mind
Memory special: Is technology making your memory worse?
Features
Mind
Memory special: Is your memory normal?
Features
Mind
Memory special: What happens to memories over time?
Features
Mind
Memory special: How can two people recall an event so differently?
Features
Mind
Memory FAQ: Answers to the common questions that baffle us all
Features
Technology
Forget quantum laptops, our quantum computing future is in the cloud
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