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Chelsea Whyte

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Chelsea Whyte is a senior editor at ��è��Ƶ. She has worked as a staff journalist at ��è��Ƶ since 2017, in previous roles as US Editor, senior news editor, a US reporter and as the physics and space news editor. She has a master's degree in journalism from Northwestern University.

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Space

Slicing the moon in half would be disastrous for Earth – but beautiful

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Space

Is it possible to turn Venus from boiling hellscape to liveable world?

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Society

The Mexican hypothesis debunked: How marijuana really came to the US

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Steve Jones at the US Botanic Garden with a bloom (Devin Dotson/US Botanic Garden)

Life

The strange plant that just might be the worst smell on the planet

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Space

Could we tweak the solar system to make Pluto a planet again?

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Illustration of the leaves and seeds of Cannabis sativa

Humans

A million years of marijuana: How cannabis became our favourite weed

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Space

Is an enormous shield the worst way to protect Earth from asteroids?

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Space

Could a gravitational wave rip apart an entire planet?

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Space

Is it possible to drill a hole straight through a planet?

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Space

Could we put out the sun with a sun-sized orb of water?

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This is Lake Powell from the air in 2015 http://michaelfriberg.com/killing-the-colorado/

Environment

Why the Colorado river is drying up – and what we can do about it

Features

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Humans

Flush review: Stop letting human faeces go down the toilet

Culture