Technology
How binge-watching your favourite TV show is fuelling climate change
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Environment
Tackling emissions from heavy industry is key to fixing climate change
News
Technology
Steel and concrete are climate change’s hard problem. Can we solve it?
Features
Physics
Why dark matter’s no-show could mean a big bang rethink
Features
Life
Why the hunt for alien life is under way far beneath Earth’s surface
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Environment
Row over whether fracking could resume in England despite ‘ban’
A document released just days after the government announced a halt to fracking suggests that future applications will be considered
News
Environment
Worsening bushfires cause Australia to declare state of emergency
News
Health
UK teen almost died from severe lung failure linked to vaping
News
Life
Huge mysterious ape Gigantopithecus was a distant cousin of orangutans
News
Humans
Ethnic minority academics get less UK research funding
News
Space
Star systems full of planetary smash-ups are bad news for alien life
News
Environment
People are using mosquito nets for fishing 鈥� and it works too well
News
Earth
Spectacular ice eggs have washed onto a beach in Finland
News
Humans
People with more empathy may actually increase political divisions
News
Life
Tactical voting helps yellow-eyed penguin seize bird of the year crown
News
Humans
Babies are less afraid when they can smell their mothers
News
Technology
Here’s how we can stop a mountain of electric car batteries piling up
News
Technology
This piece of music could stop your Amazon Alexa from working
News
Humans
Neanderthals’ cave art skills questioned in dispute over age of images
News
Mind
Most people give up on using mental health apps within a few weeks
News
Technology
DNA sites propose security plans to address genetic privacy fears
News
Health
I tested out DNA-based food shopping and it was strange
News
Environment
Emperor penguins could go extinct by 2100 if we fail on climate change
News
Health
Would you use a patch of 100 tiny needles over the contraceptive pill?
News
Health
Some women lack odour-detecting part of brain but still sense smells
News
Health
AI can predict if you’ll die soon 鈥� but we’ve no idea how it works
News
Environment
A deadly seal virus may be spreading faster due to melting Arctic ice
News
Health
Experimental dengue vaccine cuts infection rates in real-world trials
News
Analysis
Health
Sequencing the genome of every UK baby would be an ethical minefield
UK health minister Matt Hancock has announced plans for the NHS to analyse everyone's DNA at birth, but the idea may breach ethical guidelines on genetic testing
News
Technology
How binge-watching your favourite TV show is fuelling climate change
News
Technology
Why US police could be using your genes to profile you right now
News
Technology
Deepfakes are terrible for democracy, but Facebook is a bigger threat
News
Features
Physics
Why dark matter’s no-show could mean a big bang rethink
We can't find any trace of cosmic dark matter 鈥� perhaps because our models of the early universe are missing a crucial piece, says astrophysicist Dan Hooper
Features
Technology
Steel and concrete are climate change’s hard problem. Can we solve it?
Features
Life
Why the hunt for alien life is under way far beneath Earth’s surface
Features
Culture
Technology
Non-stop nightmare: Disturbing show weighs the impact of a 24/7 world
24/7 at Somerset House in London challenges the profound effects of an always-on culture, while a book about the importance of rest shows how relaxing stacks up with well-being
Culture
Environment
Don鈥檛 miss: Art confronts climate, a book on space junk, future talk
Culture
Technology
The Outer Worlds makes me want an AI-driven role-playing game
Culture
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Physics
The plucky probe that put the big bang theory to the test
30 years ago, cosmologists launched the COBE satellite to glimpse the 鈥渁fterglow of creation鈥�. Its measurements revealed the universe鈥檚 history and fate in unprecedented detail
Regulars
Space
The Leonid meteor shower peaks this week: Here’s how to see it
Regulars
Technology
Google scientist has a surprising tip to improve any search
Regulars
Regulars
Using the space-time continuum to make it rain and other odd claims
Feedback is our weekly column of bizarre stories, implausible advertising claims, confusing instructions and more
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Letters
Cold feat: Why is a freezer door hard to open just after you shut it?
Last Word
Sitting pretty: sitting is harmful, but how exactly is it bad?
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This week鈥檚 new questions
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