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From The Editor
These days it seems like every time I look in the mirror I notice yet another grey hair on my head or another wrinkle on my face – daily reminders that I'm not getting any younger. Sure, these changes are only cosmetic and of no real consequence, but
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Ancient Apocalypse: Death on the Nile We may be closer to knowing how the Pyramids were constructed, but dive back into the BBC archive and you can discover how the experts think the Ancient Egyptian civilisation collapsed. Watch now on BBC iPlayer C
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The Brain Up Close
MASSACHUSETTS, USA We all know what a brain looks like. That mushy mass in our heads has been shown hundreds of times in a variety of ways. But you've probably never seen it looking like this. Researchers at Harvard University, in the US, have imaged
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reply@sciencefocus.com BBC Science Focus, Eagle House, Bristol, BS1 4ST @sciencefocus www.facebook.com/sciencefocus @bbcsciencefocus There will probably be a better use for the luxury bunkers (Summer, p40) than assuaging the fear of nuclear Armageddo
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THE TEAM EDITORIAL Editor & brand lead Daniel Bennett Managing editor Robert Banino Commissioning editor Jason Goodyer Digital editor Thomas Ling Special projects editor Noa Leach Q&A editor Holly Spanner Staff writer Alex Hughes ART Art editor Joe E
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Discoveries
Afast-moving, unknown object has been spotted zooming through space at about 1.6 million km/h (1 million miles per hour). It's moving so fast that it could exit the Milky Way entirely – and scientists are still trying to work out what it is. Currentl
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ARCHAEOLOGY Major Stonehenge Discovery Deepens Mystery Around ancient Monument
Cue the conspiracy theories: new research reveals that one of Stonehenge's central and larger megaliths came neither from England, nor Wales, but from the far northeast of Scotland – and we don't know how it got there. Experts think the six-tonne alt
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MEDICINE An Artificial Heart Inspired By Plumbing
It looks like it could be the missing organ that the Tin Man from The Wizard of Oz desperately wanted, but this heart has actually been built for humans. In July, this artificial heart was successfully implanted, for the first time, into a patient wi
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COMMENT Free School Meals Are The Bedrock Of A Better Society
On a cold and sunny November morning in 2021, my wife and I, both dressed to the nines and clutching our negative lateral flow COVID tests, drove south along the M11 motorway heading to Windsor Castle. I was hugely honoured, and more than a little su
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How Light's ‘Secret Code’ Reveals The Story Of The Cosmos
When you see photos from a modern telescope of a planet, nebula or distant galaxy, it's easy to be dazzled by the detail. But what astronomers get really excited about is a property of the light our eyes can't see: the spectrum. This secret code embe
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COMMENT Bespoke Birth Control: Tomorrow's Contraceptives Could Be Tailored To You
J ust over 1 billion women – more than a quarter of Earth's female population – want to use contraception, according a World Health Organization report from 2021. There are plenty of contraceptive options for women; more than 13 methods are currently
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REVIEW Scientists Want To Build A Giant ‘Bio-vault’ On The Moon. Here's Why…
Disaster could strike at any moment. For hundreds of millions of years, life on Earth has had to contend with a litany of existential threats: wayward asteroids, deadly pandemics, frigid ice ages and hellish volcanic eruptions. Today, the threat of c
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ANALYSIS One Of Earth's Key Climate Systems Is One The Brink Of Collapse
Icy winds howl across a frozen Thames, ice floes block shipping in the Mersey docks, and crops fail across the UK. Meanwhile, the US east coast has been inundated by rising seas and there's ecological chaos in the Amazon as the wet and dry season hav
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The Unexpected Return Of Pneumatic Tubes
Remember the good old days when pneumatic tubes were all the rage? No? That's okay. Since they were invented in the 1850s and largely phased out by the late 20th century, it's likely only a few of us recall when they were in regular use. Built to pro
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How To Perfect Your Sleep Routine With Technology
Sometimes sleep is so close, held back by a singular noise preventing you from nodding off. If you live in a city with lots of traffic, or there's one relentless fox going through your bins, Loop's new Quiet 2 Plus earplugs could be just what you nee
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Ideas We Like…
With its aH-1, Ventete aims to solve one of life's great concerns: where on Earth do you put a bike helmet when you're not wearing it? Too big to go in a bag, too important to leave unattended with the bike… you're stuck carrying it around. So how do
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Living Fossils
No individual species alive today was around during the age of the dinosaurs, between 246– 66 million years ago. But there are several groups of species currently roaming the Earth who can trace their roots back to ancient ancestors that would have l
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Call Your Own Bluff
Have you ever felt like a fraud? Perhaps, on getting a new job or promotion, you've been immediately hit by thoughts that you're not good enough – and, surely, somebody will soon unmask you as a charlatan. If so, you're probably suffering from impost
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Eclipses On Demand
Inside an unassuming building, behind a damp car park in Antwerp, Belgium, scientists are teaching two spacecraft to be dance partners for a performance that will take place in front of the Sun. It's early April, just days before the Great American E
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The Pills To End Ageing
Are you, or is someone you know, ageing? Of course your are: thought a handful or wellness influencers claim otherwise, the processes of biological ageing are ticking along within us all. But there's good news - scientists now understand enough about
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THE BIG QUESTION Do We Finally Know How The Egyptian Pyramids Were Built?
How the Egyptian pyramids were built has long been a mystery. Constructed as tombs for the pharaohs over 4,000 years ago, more than 100 of them remain. The largest one, the Great Pyramid of Giza, was originally 147m tall (482ft). It's made up of abou
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Your Questions Answered
If you're living and working in a blame culture, you might have noticed how people are afraid to speak up when things go wrong. They know those in charge will be looking for people to use as scapegoats to punish and shame. Most research on this probl
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Pencils At The Ready!
1 Raises large fist, confused (5) 4 Tread heavily on a sticker (5) 8 Street without a concert hall, say (5) 9 Application not quite so futile (7) 10 Painting of Chartres (3) 11 Creep upset snake (5) 12 Lethargic trio worried about quiet daughter (6)
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Change The (body) Clocks
Ian is a freelance science writer and the former deputy editor of BBC Science Focus. Not to be all gothic and theatrical, but the darkness is coming. Come the end of October, the clocks go back. Suddenly, the Sun will set before 5pm and we'll walk ar

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