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Neolithic engineers used scientific knowledge to build huge megalith

The interior of the monument in Spain known as the Menga dolmen Miguel Ángel Blanco de la Rubia Neolithic people

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Why do covid cases rise in summer, unlike other respiratory viruses?

Covid-19 is a risk all year round Rosem Morton for The Washington Post via Getty Images Traditionally, summer is the

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Why the underground home of the world’s weirdest wildlife is in danger

A lava cave in Iceland is a tiny part of a vast, underground habitat found around the planet TOMMY AU PHOTO/Getty

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The odds of quantum weirdness being real just got a lot higher

An experiment with beams of photons has confirmed quantum weirdness exists luchschenF/Shutterstock The world is as weird as we feared.

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Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant is at risk, warn former workers

The Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant on 11 August Ukranian Presidency/Handout/Getty Images A fire at Europe’s largest nuclear power plant is

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Covid variant JN.1 may have become dominant due to just one mutation

JN.1 spread widely despite many people being vaccinated and having previous covid-19 infections Debarchan Chatterjee/NurPhoto/Shutterstock One mutation may have been

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Conspiracy theorists may not really believe their outlandish ideas

An anti-lockdown protest in Trafalgar Square, London, in August 2020 Richard Baker/Getty Images Many people who respond to surveys saying

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Rollkur: Are horses in equestrian sports being harmed by neck hyperflexion?

A dressage horse iStockphoto During the Olympic equestrian events of dressage, horses display dance-like steps that demand high levels of

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Algae transformed into a ‘biofactory’ for green fuel and plastics

Chlamydomonas pacifica algae growing in an outdoor pond João Vitor Dutra Molino A newly discovered species of algae has been

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Controversial idea to save corals would replace them with new species

Could drastic action help restore coral reefs? Serge Melesan / Alamy Corals are being hit so hard by global warming