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Mind

Too busy to meditate? Microdosing mindfulness has big health benefits

Small bursts of mindfulness practices lasting a minute or less can have unexpected benefits for those with busy lives - here’s how

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Are we living in a simulation? This experiment could tell us

Physics

Are we living in a simulation? This experiment could tell us

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The collaborative Human Challenge study is the first in the world to perform detailed monitoring over the full course of COVID-19, from the moment a person first encounters SARS-CoV-2, throughout the infection to the point at which the virus is apparently eliminated. The Human Challenge Programme is a partnership between Imperial College London, the Vaccine Taskforce and Department of ÎçÒ¹¸£Àû1000¼¯ºÏ and Social Care (DHSC), hVIVO (part of Open Orphan plc.), and the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust.

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How deliberately giving people illnesses is supercharging medicine

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Physics

Black hole entropy hints at a surprising truth about our universe

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Life

A sinister, deadly brain protein could reveal the origins of all life

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A revolutionary way to map our bodies is helping cure deadly diseases

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A revolutionary way to map our bodies is helping cure deadly diseases

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Life

The long-overlooked insects that could save our crops

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A new understanding of causality could fix quantum theory’s fatal flaw

Physics

A new understanding of causality could fix quantum theory’s fatal flaw

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Chemistry

Why quasicrystals shouldn’t exist but are turning up in strange places

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Humans

We can finally hear the long-hidden music of the Stone Age

Ancient rock art was meant to be heard as well as seen and now acoustic archaeologists are bringing the sounds of prehistoric rituals to life

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The vital, overlooked role of body fat in shaping your health and mind

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Space

Is a deadly asteroid about to hit Earth? Meet the man who can tell you

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Women have supercharged immune systems and we now know why

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Why giving up on goals is good for you, and how to know which to ditch

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