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Plastic waste is a problem 鈥� but some solutions are even worse
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Fixing planet plastic: How we’ll really solve our waste problem
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How tech bugs could be killing thousands in our hospitals
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Technology
Huge new Facebook data leak exposed intimate details of 3m users
Data from millions of Facebook users, including their answers to聽intimate questionnaires, was left exposed online for anyone to access, a 快猫短视频 investigation has found
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Earth
Fertiliser feeds us but trashes the climate 鈥� now there’s a fix
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Earth
Rich nations restore their own forests but trash those elsewhere
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Health
Doing Dry January lowers cancer-promoting proteins in your blood
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Space
We鈥檝e lost track of more than 900 near-Earth asteroids
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Health
Cause of polycystic ovary syndrome discovered at last
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Physics
Utterly bizarre theoretical ‘fractons’ could be made for real
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Humans
Stem cells may reveal how Neanderthal DNA works in modern humans
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Earth
The tides are getting stronger thanks to the shifting continents
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Space
Probe saw plumes on Europa 20 years ago – we just didn’t notice
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Humans
Trolley problem tested in real life for first time with mice
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Mind
DeepMind AI developed navigation neurons to solve a maze like us
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Humans
Eye scanner can tell if you’ve mastered a foreign language
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Environment
Ferocious pack-hunting pseudoscorpions believe in sharing fairly
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Space
Exoplanet with a cloudless sky may let us see inside a gas giant
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Space
The sun will die in a blaze of swirling gas in 5 billion years
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Space
Interstellar cloud mapped by listening to its magnetic waves
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Earth
A plague from South Korea is killing frogs and toads worldwide
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Health
Eating all your meals before 3pm could be good for your health
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Humans
Napoleon Complex: Are smaller men really more aggressive?
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Analysis
Technology
We’ve only just realised the huge power and value of our data
People signup to Facebook personality apps for fun聽but few read the terms and conditions. Once, this may have seemed reasonable, but the climate has changed
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Humans
Trump鈥檚 Iran U-turn could restart the global nuclear arms race
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Health
Keep the facts front and centre in Ireland’s abortion debate
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Earth
Towing icebergs to Cape Town is a poor way to halt water crisis
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Technology
Google鈥檚 human-like phone calls are a clever but nasty trick
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Features
Earth
Fixing planet plastic: How we’ll really solve our waste problem
From bag bans to bacterial mulchers, many solutions are touted for the plastic waste crisis. Find out which work 鈥� and which don't 鈥� in our definitive guide
Features
Earth
Biodegradable plastic: Waste that eats itself
Features
Health
How tech bugs could be killing thousands in our hospitals
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Physics
Upend atom! We’ve found a whole new way of doing chemistry
Features
Culture
Superhuman: What human extremes mean for today and tomorrow
What makes exceptional people? Will the future need extreme abilities? An unusual book maps the territory, while three others ask what makes us human at all
Culture
Evading death and mind-uploading: The ambition of transhumanism
Culture
Physics
What Is Real? A tale of how big egos hijacked quantum physics
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Feedback: Did dinosaurs fart? Science says yes
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