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Category: Science
Afghan people face an impossible choice over their digi...
The Taliban's rise to power has left many people in Afghanistan looking to delete their digital footprint, but there are few resou...
Environmentalist Jonathon Porritt’s big idea to slow gl...
Regenerating natural systems will draw carbon out of the atmosphere and help tackle climate change. We must recarbonise Earth now,...
Reminiscence review: Sci-fi that’s too ambitious for it...
Reminiscence, featuring Hugh Jackman and Thandiwe Newton, has all the making of a great science fiction thriller. But unfortunatel...
Giant anteaters are forced to roam in search of cooling...
Giant anteaters rely on forests to help them stay cool – so where trees grow sparsely, the animals are forced to roam further
Diabetes implant is restocked by swallowing magnetic in...
A stomach implant delivers insulin that can be refilled through capsules that are swallowed. If the device is approved for use in ...
Ozone layer treaty will slow climate change by protecti...
The international treaty to protect the ozone layer has had the inadvertent benefit of protecting plants and avoiding up to 1°C of...
Mentally demanding jobs linked with lower dementia risk...
People who have intellectually stimulating jobs are slightly less likely to develop dementia as they age, according to data from s...
Two covid-19 vaccines are 15 per cent less effective ag...
A large UK study shows two doses of the Pfizer or AstraZeneca vaccines provide good protection against symptomatic infections by t...
Colombia's peace treaty accidentally sparks increase in...
The end of Colombia's civil war in 2016 unwittingly caused an increase in deforestation across the country as Marxist guerrillas n...
Humanitarian aid guided by satellite data may harm marg...
Policy-makers can use satellite data to quickly identify areas of the world in need of humanitarian aid, but it might contain bias...
Astronomers may have spotted a new spiral arm of the Mi...
Researchers have found a colossal filament of gas called Cattail at the edge of the galaxy – it could be a new spiral arm of the M...
Will the IPCC report help focus politicians' minds on c...
The recent report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change outlined the significant carbon cuts needed to avoid the worst ...