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Stay informed with commentary and opinion pieces on the latest issues in science, technology, health and the environment, written by expert New ÒÁÈ˾þà journalists and world-leading researchers and thinkers.

Mathematics

The mathematician who doesn’t exist

A secret society of French mathematicians has been revolutionising the field of mathematics under a pseudonym for nearly a century. Columnist Jacob Aron finds that this mythic collective provided maths a rigorous and useful foundation, and did some real harm along the way

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Life

David Attenborough is one of a kind, for better or worse

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Read the winner of this year’s Young Science Writer Award

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Read the winner of this year’s Young Science Writer Award

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Space

The problem of cosmic inflation and how to solve it

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Health

Honey has been used as medicine for centuries – does it really work?

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Health

The 4 biggest myths about hydration, according to an expert

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Physics

An unorthodox version of quantum theory could reveal what reality is

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Health

Long covid reveals the harm of one-size-fits-all medical treatment

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Environment

How I pay almost nothing to power my house and electric car

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Health

We may finally have a cure for many different autoimmune conditions

A revolutionary cancer treatment is now being applied to a wide range of autoimmune disorders. Columnist Michael Le Page finds it is proving to be even more effective than expected

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Mind

How your heart rate variability can offer an insight into your mind

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Health

Is stem cell therapy about to transform medicine and reverse ageing?

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Mind

Why is it so hard to change your mind?

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Space

The rise, the fall and the rebound of cyclic cosmology

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