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What makes you conscious 鈥� and where is it in your brain?

Is turning on consciousness more like pressing a button, or operating a dimmer switch? The whys and hows of awareness are maddeningly hard to pin down

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Physics

‘Glueballs’ of pure force must exist 鈥� will we ever find them?

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Environment

Animal superpowers: How we’re homing in on their magnetic satnav

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Space

Listening for gravitational waves from the birth of the universe

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Environment

The enigmatic whale we can hear 鈥� but have never seen

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Environment

How are baby eels made? We still don’t know

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Environment

Just how are we related to our chimp cousins?

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Space

How we’ll catch a huge black hole on camera

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Physics

Mathematicians play whack-a-mole in the endless infinity hunt

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Plastic fantastic: The quest to create the smartest materials

Plastics transformed life in the 20th century, but we鈥檙e still amateurs at making them. Can we create another polymer revolution by mimicking nature?

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Humans

A mind trick that can break down your brain’s barrier to success

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Tap the placebo effect to unlock your body’s healing powers

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I can tell you how to heal yourself with hypnosis

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Key moments in human evolution happened far from our Africa home

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