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Scientists could soon reverse daylight savings clock changes. Here’s why

Most of us look forward to the extra hour we get in bed every October, but researchers argue that changing the clocks twice a year harms our health.
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We might finally know what came before the Big Bang

Could all of this have happened before? And might it happen again?
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Killer whales have now learnt a genius way to destroy great white sharks, new footage shows

Killer whales have a grisly new technique for hunting juvenile great white sharks – and scientists caught it on camera
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Elon Musk? AI? ‘Crazy left-wing activists’? The man who built Wikipedia explains its biggest threats

25 years and millions of articles later, Wikipedia is the biggest bank of human knowledge on the web
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New issue: What we got wrong about ADHD and why it matters

Psychology is rife with myths: you only use 10 per cent of your brain; you’re either left-brained or right-brained; your brain has a ‘learning style’. Culture is littered with ideas that would have any decent psychologist rolling their eyes. At 146 years old, psychology is no spring chicken, but compared to something like astronomy, it’s a toddler. Since the subject is still in its infancy, a lot of the early ideas about human thought and behaviour linger, giving rise to misconceptions about how our brains work. While erroneous conclusions about the ‘left/right brain’ idea is relatively harmless, others can get us into trouble. TV in the 90s taught us that attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) was something only kids had – the unruly, fidgety kind that couldn’t sit still long enough to do their homework. The trouble is, psychology and the early narrative around the condition oversimplified what was happening. As we learn more about the disorder, those assumptions are crashing into real people’s lives and a forgotten generation of undiagnosed people are emerging, having struggled their whole lives. This issue, we investigate why millions are waking up to the new reality of ADHD.
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Here's how scientists are rewriting the origin story of Earth & life itself

Although key details are missing from the story of how our Solar System formed, recent discoveries are helping scientists fill in the blanks and understand how rare it is.
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This ‘internet of animals’ could unlock the secrets of nature’s greatest superpowers

Scientists are using electronic tags and satellites to track wild animals and build a data network.
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How AI could soon be used by Wikipedia, according to its founder

Jimmy Wales, internet entrepreneur and founder of Wikipedia, reveals major changes coming to the web’s biggest bank of human knowledge
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I survived the worst fire in space history – and was told to keep it secret

New nightmare unlocked
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