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Life

PMOS shows us why many scientific terms need to be renamed

Like covid-19 and mpox before it, the decision to relabel PCOS as polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome is a welcome one – and reveals why a name is never just a name

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Technology

The future of robot armies is here – and it’s not what you think

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Health

The 3 things you need to know about protein, according to an expert

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Space

The hidden pockets of the universe where the future can cause the past

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Mind

Where do you think your ‘self’ is? Your answer is revealing

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Technology

3 things you need to know about quantum computers, from an expert

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Physics

Science doesn't have a monopoly on good ideas

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A light micrograph of a section through an ovary with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), with two cysts demonstrated in light pink. Except, they're not actually cysts

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PCOS has been officially renamed PMOS, and it’s a momentous move

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Physics

Why do particle physicists like spending time in fields?

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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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Health

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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