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Honey has been used as medicine for centuries – does it really work?

It is appealing to think something as simple as honey could cure a cold or prevent hay fever, but is there evidence to back up honey’s health benefits? Columnist Alice Klein finds that it has legitimate medicinal uses, depending on the type of honey you’ve got

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Physics

An unorthodox version of quantum theory could reveal what reality is

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Health

We may finally have a cure for many different autoimmune conditions

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Mind

How your heart rate variability can offer an insight into your mind

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Health

Is stem cell therapy about to transform medicine and reverse ageing?

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Mind

Why is it so hard to change your mind?

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Space

The rise, the fall and the rebound of cyclic cosmology

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Humans

Are Neanderthals descendants of modern humans?

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Physics

The stunning physics of Project Hail Mary go back to ancient China

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Mathematics

The man who ruined mathematics

The incompleteness theorem is accepted as part of the mathematical canon today, but columnist Jacob Aron says it was a bombshell when Kurt Gödel first introduced it. Gödel’s seminal work directly contradicted one of the great minds of mathematics and limited the field forever

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Physics

How a century-long argument over light’s true nature came to an end

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Health

Iodised salt has become uncool but many of us need to eat more iodine

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Environment

How a DIY worm farm can compost food scraps, paper or a whole kangaroo

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Mind

The best kind of olive oil for brain health

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