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Influential autism researcher Simon Baron-Cohen in his Cambridge office

Mind

The controversial legacy of a ‘male’ theory of autism

Simon Baron-Cohen’s influential research helped pin autism as a particularly male condition. As studies increasingly broaden our view of autism, has his perspective changed?

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Physics

Are we about to solve the greatest mystery of the neutrino?

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Health

A revolutionary way of targeting tumours could beat even the worst cancers 

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Technology

Do AIs already process information in a way that gives rise to consciousness? 

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Environment

Why rediscovering extinct species can actually be a bad thing

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Space

Impossibly fast-moving stars are revealing the Milky Way’s mysterious heart

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Health

Can we harness the brain’s deep-cleaning system to prevent Alzheimer’s?

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Health

The overlooked power of diet for improving your mental health

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Life

Why are so many animals moving to hotter places as the world warms?

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Physics

Embracing the glitches in gravity could give us a unified theory of reality

Physicists have long struggled with their goal of making gravity a quantum force. A radical post-quantum approach might solve that problem – and clear up other cosmic mysteries, too

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Space

Do we live in a simulation? If so, it could be a giant consciousness experiment

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Life

How ancient superbugs could help us fight antibiotic resistance

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Environment

The collapse of the AMOC would be catastrophic. How will we know when it’s coming?

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Health

Xand van Tulleken on the 3 wellness trends to be most wary of

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