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Good hydrations: Is tea or coffee better for you?

Coffee has the edge when it comes to stimulation, but tea’s all-round health benefits make it a winner – except there’s another story brewing

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Good hydrations: Is fruit juice better than soda?

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Humans

Subway chicken row shows faith in food is still a battleground

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Physics

Cosmic uncertainty: Your skull is an amazing physics lab

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Humans

Old Scientist: Our best jokes ever (laughter not guaranteed)

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Physics

Cosmic uncertainty: Are there really just three dimensions?

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Physics

Cosmic uncertainty: Could quantum weirdness be even weirder?

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Physics

Cosmic uncertainty: Does time go both ways?

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Earth

A loaf of bread emits half a kilo of CO2, mainly from fertiliser

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You should be eating 10 pieces of fruit or veg every day, not 5

A review of 95 studies suggests we should be eating 10 portions of fruit and veg a day to reduce our chances of dying from a heart attack or cancer

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Physics

Magnets, boiling kettles and the secret code underlying reality

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Junk food tax and veg subsidies could add 500,000 years of life

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Technology

AI learns to solve quantum state of many particles at once

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Earth

Great lettuce crisis is a taste of climate crop chaos to come

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