The maths meme that has been distracting mathematicians for a century
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Photons behave very strangely if you try to cut them
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We may finally know why gold stays so shiny
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Women’s better memories may delay Alzheimer’s diagnosis by years
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Bitter Honey review: New Scientist recommends a devastating account of farming honeybees
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The ‘doomsday’ glacier’s giant ice shelf is about to break away
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Will burying dead trees after a wildfire keep their carbon locked up?
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A new tectonic plate boundary could be forming in southern Africa
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A vast dam across the Bering Strait could stop the AMOC collapsing
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