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What is a species?

A species is a group of living organisms that are all broadly similar and can, at least in principle, breed with one another. | Continue reading

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Does people power make a difference? The truth about protests

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Werner Heisenberg

Werner Heisenberg was a German theoretical physicist famous for his uncertainty principle and his work on nuclear fission. | Continue reading

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Microbes from farms may protect children from asthma even in cities

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Everything you need to know about the hospital food listeria outbreak

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Our galaxy's central black hole is oddly quiet – now we may know why

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The musicians helping make climate change a cultural movement

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How to make the perfect crêpe according to fluid dynamics

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Superweeds are on the brink of becoming resistant to all weedkillers

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High-tech vertical farming is on the rise – but is it any greener?

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Strange fat cells in our bones grow rather than shrink when we starve

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We may be witnessing the birth of an exomoon around a distant world

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UK could use hydrogen instead of natural gas – if it can make enough

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More than half of all Ebola outbreaks are going undetected

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Gut microbes interfere with Parkinson's drug - but we could stop them

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Ethnic minority children are exposed to more noise pollution at school

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Two hours a week spent outdoors in nature linked with better health

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Robotic surgery is turning out to be an expensive fad

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Another team has used 'jumping genes' to upgrade CRISPR gene editing

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Europa’s salty surface may indicate an ocean that’s good for life

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Tombs in China reveal humans were smoking cannabis 2500 years ago

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Creating an AI can be five times worse for the planet than a car

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Another team has used 'jumping genes' to upgrade CRISPR gene editing

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How Star Trek’s warp drives touch on one of physics' biggest mysteries

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End the scandalous male data bias that determines women's health

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Norway to sell off fossil fuel stocks worth more than $8 billion

A fund that manages $1 trillion of Norway’s assets will divest from oil and gas exploration firms and invest more in renewable energy companies | Continue reading

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How your body processes food is only partially down to your genes

Everyone processes food differently — even identical twins. A study found just half of our response to glucose and 20 per cent of our response to fat is genetic | Continue reading

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A robot has learned to use irony and now people like it more

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Bronze Age British settlement burned down a year after being built

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Artificial Scottish islands are thousands of years older than thought

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Robotic surgery is turning out to be an expensive fad

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How many steps a day do you really need? Spoiler: It isn't 10,000

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Brainless fungi trade resources with plants like a stock market

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Baby pterosaurs may have hatched ready to fly right out of the egg

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UK commits to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to net zero by 2050

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Inside the audacious mission to map every microbe in Australia

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A drug may prevent Alzheimer’s but there are no plans to find out

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Cloud gaming may be great for gamers but bad for energy consumption

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Crisp packets made of a new material could be much easier to recycle

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AIs seem to be much worse at recognising objects from poorer countries

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People with gambling problems seem to spend more on in-game loot boxes

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People with a gambling problem spend more on in-game loot boxes

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Humans have driven nearly 600 plant species to extinction since 1750s

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Carnivorous pitcher plants are regularly eating vertebrate animals

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How your body processes food is only partially down to your genes

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3D-printed replica heads are being used to help treat cancer patients

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Lizards' grip became ten times stronger after hurricane Maria

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Fake news generating AIs could be the best weapons to fight fake news

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