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From mindset to microbiome, exercise and diet, here’s how to upgrade your immune system

I am lying under a blanket, feeling rough, staring at a bowl of oranges. Every fibre of my being is

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Putting data centres in space isn’t going to happen any time soon

Starcloud wants to build a data centre satellite that is 4 kilometres by 4 kilometres Starcloud Could AI’s insatiable thirst

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Crash clock says satellites in orbit are three days from disaster

An artist’s representation of satellites in orbit around Earth yucelyilmaz/Shutterstock A collision would occur in just 2.8 days if all

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Some Arctic warming ‘irreversible’ even if we cut atmospheric CO2

A glacier meets the sea in Dickson Fjord, Greenland Jane Rix/Alamy The Arctic will retain about 1.5°C of warming even

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Inside the wild experiments physicists would do with zero limits

In physics, breakthroughs are rare. Experiments are slow, expensive and often end up refining, rather than rewriting, our understanding of

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Comet 3I/ATLAS from beyond solar system carries key molecule for life

Comet 3I/ATLAS is only the third known visitor to our solar system from elsewhere International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/Shadow the Scientist; J.

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Volcano eruption may have led to the Black Death coming to Europe

The bubonic plague arrived in Europe in the late 1340s CPA Media / Alamy The Black Death, a bubonic plague

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A sinister, deadly brain protein could reveal the origins of all life

In 1944, Erwin Schrödinger published a book called What Is Life?. The physicist, famous for his alive-and-dead cat, clearly relished

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Upheavals to the oral microbiome in pregnancy may be behind tooth loss

Maintaining good oral hygiene may be particularly important during pregnancy Kondoros Eva Katalin/Getty Images “Gain a child, lose a tooth”,

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Hoverflies: The long-overlooked insects that could save our crops

  It takes Mandela Fernández-Grandon 15 minutes to train a hoverfly, a harmless wasp look-alike. The entomologist at the University of