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Five Pacific islands vanish from sight as sea levels rise
Solomon Islands are taking the brunt of sea level rise, with five of them already submerged 鈥� a picture of what we can expect elsewhere by the end of the century 聽
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First global Mercury map shows its hills and valleys in detail
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Watch creatures of the abyss in Earth’s deepest ocean trench
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Cycling for more than five hours a week in Delhi is bad for you
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A fifth of all plants threatened as habitats shrink worldwide
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Facebook must fight for its facial recognition tech in court
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Canada’s huge wildfires may release carbon locked in permafrost
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Smart second skin reduces eye bags and wrinkles 鈥� or so it seems
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This Turing machine should run forever unless maths is wrong
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Goopy dark matter could slow down inflation of the universe
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Adding rocks to oceans could de-acidify water and save coral
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Earth
Seabed core reveals how lush Antarctica changed to icy desert
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Invisible radar wall in the atmosphere caused by UV from the sun
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Quick $2 test reveals if you caught a superbug in hospital
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Stars burn away the atmospheres of close-in super-Earths
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North Pacific’s sea slug invasion linked to mystery ocean blob
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Earth
Early Earth’s air may have been thinner than on Everest today
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Health
Women sleep half an hour longer than men, phone app data shows
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Dragonfly wings can track radiation doses after a nuclear mishap
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Robotic surgeon could stitch you up after removing your appendix
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London is set for driverless car roll-out 鈥� so what comes next?
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Do you have a secret? The way you write emails may give it away
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Humans
Silicon Valley cash is flooding into science 鈥� but is it useful?
Tech billionaires are falling over themselves to donate to science 鈥� as long as they can call the (moon)shots. Not everyone is happy about that
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Health
Our audience with the Pope revealed how glitz funds medicine
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Will brain stimulation for autism diminish my special talents?
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Humans
When does life begin? Lab embryo advance reopens a big debate
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Finding the real Satoshi Nakamoto is vital for bitcoin’s future
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Physics
Matter, energy鈥� knowledge: How to harness physics’ demonic power
Running a brain-twisting thought experiment for real shows that information is a physical thing 鈥� so can we now harness the most elusive entity in the cosmos?
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Humans
How sharing other people’s feelings can make you sick
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Humans
A history of love, art, power and religion in 10 graves
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I never imagined a nuclear plant’s control system being online
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