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Space junk concept. Toxic garbage in the space over Earth

Space

Why we need to get serious about solving the space junk problem

Space

Satellites and junk are littering space and ruining our night skies

Health

Are vegan meat alternatives putting our health on the line?

Environment

Andreas Malm interview: Why climate protesters need to embrace unrest

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Leaders

Space junk concept. Toxic garbage in the space over Earth

Space

Why we need to get serious about solving the space junk problem

The overcrowding of low Earth orbit with commercial satellites is a problem for astronomers and the satellites 鈥� and it needs urgent international action to solve it

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A Moderna covid-19 vaccine is prepared

Health

Covid-19 news: Moderna鈥檚 omicron booster has promising immune response

A regular round-up of the latest coronavirus聽news, plus insight, features and interviews from 快猫短视频 about the聽covid-19 pandemic

Health

Covid-19 news archive: May 2022

Health

Covid-19 news archive: April 2022

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Covid-19 news archive: March 2022

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Covid-19 news archive: February 2022

Health

Covid-19 news archive: January 2022

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Covid-19 news archive: November to December 2021

Health

Covid-19 news archive: September to October 2021

Environment

What to expect from the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow

Environment

Meet the key players and big names at the COP26 climate summit

Environment

COP26: Which countries are doing best at tackling climate change?

Environment

鈥業t鈥檚 anarchic鈥�: Ed Miliband on what COP climate talks are really like

Health

Male fertility could be restored by reimplanting frozen testes tissue

Technology

AI can turn a collection of 2D images into an explorable 3D world

Technology

El Salvador’s bitcoin adoption hit by an easy money-making loophole

Space

Saturn鈥檚 moon Titan may be doomed to fly away or smash into the planet

Technology

AI can change a fashion model鈥檚 pose and alter their clothes to match

Life

We’ve found the time and place that horses were first domesticated

Health

How much less likely are you to spread covid-19 if you’re vaccinated?

Space

Astronomers left puzzled by the dimmest supernova ever seen

Environment

How Finland plans to create a circular bioeconomy that runs on wood

Health

Lab-grown human mini-brains kept alive for a year by slicing them up

Life

99-million-year-old crab discovered trapped inside amber

Life

Domestic cats are driving parasitic infections in wild animals

Environment

Microplastics in the air have a small cooling effect on our climate

Technology

Watch a wooden knife that is sharper than steel cut through steak

Life

Danish children trap 19,000 ants to study impact of climate change

Analysis

Environment

Meadows could be our secret weapon in the fight against climate change

Grasslands are overlooked as a potent resource for combating global warming. That must change, says Gill Perkins

Technology

The flawed way Netflix measures views leaves TV stuck in the past

Aperture

FEATURE CROP Close up of the air '1765'

Environment

COP26: Exhibition displays air from dawn of the industrial revolution

Polar Zero at the Glasgow Science Centre is running alongside the upcoming COP26 summit on climate change. Its exhibitions show the past, present and future of the global climate

Features

Health

Are vegan meat alternatives putting our health on the line?

Veganism is typically equated with healthy eating, but today鈥檚 factory-produced fake bacon, sausages and burgers could be tarnishing the halo of a plant-based diet. 快猫短视频 investigates

Space

Satellites and junk are littering space and ruining our night skies

Environment

Andreas Malm interview: Why climate protesters need to embrace unrest

Culture

W39B3T Group of activists is protesting outdoors - Crowd demonstrating against global warming and plastic pollution, concepts about green ecology and environ

Humans

Kim Stanley Robinson on how to have a good Anthropocene

In his latest novel The Ministry for the Future, Kim Stanley Robinson imagines what a future based on climate action might look like. He shares his take on the world with Adam Vaughan

Don’t miss: Tom Hanks beats the apocalypse with a dog and a robot

The gruesome science behind Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein

From the Neck Up review: Dark, weird and totally captivating

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This is the Belt of Orion with its three blue stars across the top of the frame (L to R: Alnitak, Alnilam, and Mintaka), with the iconic Horsehead Nebula (aka B33) below Alnitak, with the dark Horsehead set against the bright nebula IC 434, aka Orion???s Dagger. The pinkish nebula above Alnitak is NGC 2024, the Flame Nebula. The small blue reflection nebula left of the Horsehead is NGC 2023, with smaller IC 435 to the left of it. The field is filled with the large open cluster Collinder 70. The multiple star at bottom left of centre is Sigma Orionis. Many other smaller bits of reflection nebulas populate the field in and around the Belt. This is a blend of 8 x 5-minute exposures at ISO 800 unfiltered with 6 x 10-minute exposures at ISO 1600 shot through an Optolong L-Enhance dual-band nebula enhancement filter (it lets through only Oxygen III blue-green and Hydrogen-alpha red to really enhance the nebulosity). The filtered shot is blended in with the unfiltered shot to retain the best of both worlds: the rich reds captured by the filtered images without losing the range of colours in the other nebulas such as the salmon pinks of the Flame and the blue reflection nebulas and stars. All exposures with the Canon EOS Ra mirrorless camera through the SharpStar HNT150 Hyperbolic Newtonian Astrograph at f/2.8, from home on a very clear moonless night January 27, 2020. All stacked, aligned and blended in Photoshop 2020. (Photo by: Alan Dyer/VW PICS/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Space

How to use Orion to find Canis Major and Canis Minor

The dog constellations, Canis Major and Canis Minor, seem to run along faithfully behind Orion. Here's how to find them by star-hopping from Orion's belt, writes Abigail Beall

Twisteddoodles: ‘I hear the body’s temperature is going up’

Tom Gauld’s illustrations on the evolution of the headless horseman

Regulars

What we have learned from making honeybees repeatedly crash into walls

Feedback is our weekly column of bizarre stories, implausible advertising claims, confusing instructions and more

This Week鈥檚 Letters

This week鈥檚 new questions

Have we found the answer to the mystery of the impossible rainbow?

Do magnets have any effects on human cells?

Is it normal behaviour for rooks to bury bread rather than eat it?

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