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GLASGOW, SCOTLAND - NOVEMBER 05: Young protestors attend the Fridays For Future COP26 Scotland March on November 5, 2021 in Glasgow, Scotland. Day Six of the 2021 climate summit in Glasgow will focus on youth and public empowerment. Outside the COP26 site, on the streets of Glasgow, the "Fridays For Future" youth climate movement hold a march to George Square in the centre of Glasgow where popular youth activists will address the crowd. The 26th "Conference of the Parties" and represents a gathering of all the countries signed on to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Paris Climate Agreement. The aim of this year's conference is to commit countries to net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. (Photo by Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

Environment

We can’t let short-term crises derail efforts to tame climate change

Humans

The female body is misunderstood and this is why, says Rachel E. Gross

Life

How the massive dogs bred to protect livestock could save wolves too

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Space

Why the next big solar storm might hit Earth without warning

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GLASGOW, SCOTLAND - NOVEMBER 05: Young protestors attend the Fridays For Future COP26 Scotland March on November 5, 2021 in Glasgow, Scotland. Day Six of the 2021 climate summit in Glasgow will focus on youth and public empowerment. Outside the COP26 site, on the streets of Glasgow, the "Fridays For Future" youth climate movement hold a march to George Square in the centre of Glasgow where popular youth activists will address the crowd. The 26th "Conference of the Parties" and represents a gathering of all the countries signed on to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Paris Climate Agreement. The aim of this year's conference is to commit countries to net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. (Photo by Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

Environment

We can’t let short-term crises derail efforts to tame climate change

Amid war, energy shortages and inflation spikes, nations are showing little sign of making good on the their emissions promises. That must change

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Technology

Cryptocurrency mining is still on the rise despite huge price drops

The value of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies has plummeted in recent weeks, but the computer power devoted to the industry continues to rise

Space

First picture of our galaxy鈥檚 supermassive black hole revealed

Space

What’s next for Event Horizon Telescope after its black hole pictures?

Health

Plan to feed phone data of NHS mental health patients to AI mothballed

Life

Clever birds forced to find new homes as Cambridge lab faces closure

Health

Flu vaccine cuts risk of heart attack in following year by 34 per cent

Physics

Maxwell’s demon experiment could be made real without breaking physics

Life

Genetically engineered bacteria have learned to play tic-tac-toe

Technology

Virtual reality mask adds realism by making it harder to breathe

Technology

Sweater includes a wireless charger to keep your gadgets topped up

Life

Ants treat infected wounds of nestmates with medicine from their back

Technology

Google calls for urgent switch to quantum-safe encryption as US delays

Environment

Circular cities experience more rain than square or triangular ones

Technology

Computer powered by colony of blue-green algae has run for six months

Life

Kenyan chameleons evolved brighter colours after moving to Hawaii

Health

Deadly 1918 flu pandemic may be source of modern milder seasonal virus

Life

Growing plants in soil from the moon doesn’t really work very well

Life

A steroid might be why octopuses starve themselves after mating

Health

Rat testicle cells make sperm after being frozen for 23 years

Analysis

TOPSHOT - Activists from the climate change group Extinction Rebellion (XR) take part in a protest in Glasgow on November 8, 2021, during the COP26 UN Climate Change Conference. - The COP26 climate talks resuming Monday have so far unfolded on parallel planes, with high-level announcements stage-managed by host country Britain during week one riding roughshod over a laborious UN process built on consensus among nearly 200 countries. (Photo by ANDY BUCHANAN / AFP) (Photo by ANDY BUCHANAN/AFP via Getty Images)

Environment

COP26: No countries have delivered on promise to improve climate plans

In Glasgow, 196 countries promised to "revisit and strengthen" their plans for curbing emissions, but there is little sign of this happening before the next talks in November

Humans

Claims that girls have a ‘natural’ aversion to physics are harmful

Life

The urban beekeeping boom is hurting wild pollinator species

Aperture

All the tablets cancer patient Ann-Marie takes in a month. I have been collecting a month of empty packaging, and have taken photos from arrival to making into dossett boxes some 50 tablets a day, making 1500 a month

Health

Radiotherapy masks to hellebore root: see the ways we confront cancer

Cancer Revolution, a new exhibition at the Science Museum in London, explores the advances behind cancer care, from this mask worn by a throat cancer patient for their treatment, to black hellebore root, a remedy used in the 1700s

Features

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Space

Why the next big solar storm might hit Earth without warning

A big solar storm could fry the internet, but at least space weather forecasts would give us a day or two to prepare. Or maybe not, because physicists have just discovered a new kind of solar storm that strikes without notice

Humans

The female body is misunderstood and this is why, says Rachel E. Gross

Life

How the massive dogs bred to protect livestock could save wolves too

Culture

Humans

Everything Everywhere All At Once review: Multiverse sci-fi adventure

Poignant, playful sci-fi adventure features a woman coping with everyday chaos as well as a threatened multiverse

Humans

Life Time review: Sleep deprivation kills, warns must-read book

Humans

Regenesis review: Farming is killing the planet but we can stop it

Humans

Don’t Miss: New documentary A Taste of Whale questions Faroes hunt

Humans

Night Sky review: Engaging show about a portal to another planet

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Image of the broken fragments surrounding Fragment B of Comet 73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 3 observed with FORS1 on ESO's VLT in four filters (B, V, R, and I). As the telescope was tracking the comet, the stars appear as coloured trails, indicating the order in which the comet was observed in the different filters. North is up and East is to the left.

Space

Watch out for comet SW3, which might cause a meteor shower in late May

Here's hoping that a meteor shower predicted by astronomers for almost a century will be seen this month, says Abigail Beall

Tom Gauld on the adventures of Science Knight

Twisteddoodles: It’s on fire

Regulars

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