Science

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Stephen Hawking's expanding universes thesis breaks the internet
Demand for 1966 PhD work, made freely available for the first time, crashes Cambridge’s repository website

Mattha Busby

23, Oct, 2017 @6:56 PM

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Small-minded? Shrews shrink their skulls to survive winter, study shows
The animals reduce the size of their brains and skulls as winter approaches and regrow them in the spring, say researchers

Nicola Davis

23, Oct, 2017 @4:00 PM

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Did you solve it? Are you smarter than a Brazilian 15-year-old?
The answers to today’s puzzles

Alex Bellos

23, Oct, 2017 @4:00 PM

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Ian Robinson obituary
Agricultural consultant who developed a system for rapidly assessing the quality of crops that could be used to warn experts of impending food crises

Ken Booth

23, Oct, 2017 @12:32 PM

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Can you solve it? Are you smarter than a Brazilian 15-year-old?
A question from the tropics about string

Alex Bellos

23, Oct, 2017 @6:15 AM

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Alan Turing’s school report reveals little of his genius
Items from codebreaker’s life – and death – go on display at Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge

Maev Kennedy

23, Oct, 2017 @5:00 AM

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Stephen Hawking's 1966 doctoral thesis made available for first time
Cambridge University says Properties of Expanding Universes is already most-requested item in open access repository

Maev Kennedy

22, Oct, 2017 @11:01 PM

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Dreaming of a cure: the battle to beat narcolepsy
A global struggle to find the cause of the rare condition that causes uncontrollable sleepiness has a long and strange history, but there’s hope of a cure at hand

Henry Nicholls

22, Oct, 2017 @7:00 AM

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Not so nasty: dinosaurs liked to snuggle up and socialise
Fossil discovered after 70 million years shows Jurassic group sleeping peacefully together

Robin McKie Science editor

21, Oct, 2017 @11:05 PM

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Robin Ling obituary
Orthopaedic surgeon whose ‘Exeter stem’ implant transformed hip replacement surgery

A John Timperley

20, Oct, 2017 @4:20 PM

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Share your photos of the Orionid meteor shower
With the Orionids due to peak over the weekend, you can share your photos via GuardianWitness

Guardian readers

20, Oct, 2017 @4:16 PM

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Lab notes: neutron stars collide; sexism and syphilis – the week in science
New frontiers in astronomy and artificial intelligence, Ancient Greek acoustics, drop in flying insects threatens ‘ecological Armageddon’, and much more

Jake Brown

20, Oct, 2017 @11:30 AM

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