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Correlation or causation? Mathematics can finally give us an answer

Are shark attacks and ice cream sales linked? Do drugs work? Being able to distinguish cause and effect is crucial. Now we have the maths to do it reliably

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Life

Life's other mystery: Why biology's building blocks are so lop-sided

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Physics

Neutrinos may explain why we don’t live in an antimatter universe

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Space

We may have spotted a parallel universe going backwards in time

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Physics

Baffling 500-page ABC maths proof to be published after eight-year row

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Space

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin: The unsung discoverer of star chemistry

Culture

Physics

We now know what causes wine ‘legs’ to drip down inside a glass

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Physics

Even a computer the size of the universe can’t predict everything

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Space

We still don't understand a basic fact about the universe

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Physics

How a new twist on quantum theory could solve its biggest mystery

The "wave function collapse" transforms vague clouds of quantum possibilities into the physical reality we know – but no one knows how. New experiments are finally revealing reality in the making

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Physics

Jim Al-Khalili's The World According to Physics is a thrilling ride

Culture

Physics

We've figured out why bubbles make a 'pop' sound when they burst

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Physics

Radioactive review: A reimagining of Marie Curie's luminous legacy

Culture

Physics

Mathematicians who revealed the power of random walks win Abel prize

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