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These four common medicines could help prolong your life

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Sunken Lands review: Heeding the flood warnings of history

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Blue tits shared a tree hollow with bird-eating bats – and survived

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Why falling birth rates will be a bigger problem than overpopulation

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How to wrap your head around the most mind-bending theories of reality

[ad_1] ARE there vastly many near-duplicates of you reading vastly many near-duplicates of this article in vastly many parallel universes? Is consciousness a fundamental property

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Ancient campsite may show how humans survived Toba volcano super-eruption

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Billions of stars have swallowed up a planet

[ad_1] Artist’s impression of a planet skimming the surface of its star K. Miller/R. Hurt (Caltech/IPAC) At least one star in every 12 seems to

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Ancient canoes hint at bustling trade in Mediterranean 7000 years ago

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Extinct freshwater dolphin from the Amazon was largest of all time

[ad_1] An artistic reconstruction of Pebanista yacuruna in the murky waters of the Peruvian proto-Amazon Jaime Bran The Amazon basin was once home to freshwater

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2024 Abel prize: Michel Talagrand wins maths award for making sense of randomness

[ad_1] Michel Talagrand says life is frighteningly random Peter Badge/Typos1/Abel Prize 2024 Michel Talagrand has won the 2024 Abel prize, sometimes called the Nobel prize