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Traveling to Japan? Here Are 8 Useful Apps for Getting Around

Whether you plan to enjoy the nightlife...

The Beginning of the End of Big Tech

From politicians to VC firms, everyone is...

Salt batteries are finally shaping up – that’s good for the planet

With lithium in short supply, sodium-ion batteries...

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Salt batteries are finally shaping up – that’s good for the planet

With lithium in short supply, sodium-ion batteries might offer cheap energy storage with less environmental impact

What will it take to solve our planet’s plastic pollution crisis?

Countries are meeting in South Korea this week to hash out the final details...

Older people may have better immunity against bird flu virus

Most people born before 1968 have antibodies against flu viruses similar to the H5N1...

How a unique puppy kindergarten lab put the science into dog training

Most dogs aren't bred to feel at ease in our homes, but scientists studying...

This start-up is removing carbon from a polluted New York City river

Projects to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere by making the oceans less acidic...

Major US art event explores the bonds between art and science

More than 70 exhibitions across Southern California are taking on the relationship between art and science, with compelling results

How to take a quantum approach to finding love

Feedback was delighted to learn of the appearance of quantum physicist Garrett Josemans on Netflix's Love is Blind. After all, being comfortable with two...

How I learned to love looking at the moon – and you can too

The moon's glare can frustrate astronomers, but Leah Crane is a big fan of the jagged, cratered details of the lunar surface these days

Does this high-tech lettuce hold the answer to the global food crisis?

Photographer Kadir van Lohuizen captures the food industry's attempts to meet the challenges of climate change and conflicts in his new book, Food for...

A personal investigation into the crisis of men’s mental health

The issue of men's dangerously bottled-up emotions finds a fresh and personal voice in Silent Men, a documentary that is at its most powerful...

We must use genetic technologies now to avert the coming food crisis

Food production is responsible for more than a third of greenhouse gas emissions. To get everyone the food they need in a warming world,...

Why we now think the myopia epidemic can be slowed – or even reversed

Rates of near-sightedness are rising all over the world. But solutions to the epidemic are coming into focus and could be simpler than you...

Sweeter tomatoes are coming soon thanks to CRISPR gene editing

Selection for bigger tomatoes has made the fruits less sweet, but now it has been shown that gene editing can make them sweeter without...

Millions of phones create most complete map ever of the ionosphere

Researchers mapped Earth’s ionosphere, part of the upper atmosphere, using signal data from 40 million phones – a method that could improve GPS accuracy...

Exquisite bird fossil provides clues to the evolution of avian brains

Palaeontologists have pieced together the brain structure of a bird that lived 80 million years ago named Navaornis hestiae, thanks to a remarkably well-preserved...

Drought, fires and fossil fuels push CO2 emissions to a record high

An annual accounting of CO2 emissions from burning fossil fuels and land use change finds no sign emissions will peak this year

Migratory birds can use Earth’s magnetic field like a GPS

Eurasian reed warblers don’t just get a sense of direction from Earth’s magnetic field – they can also calculate their coordinates on a mental...

Orbital wins the Booker prize: “I see it as a kind of space pastoral”

Samantha Harvey has won the UK's top fiction prize for a novel that takes place over 24 hours on the International Space Station

Google Street View helps map how 600,000 trees grow down to the limb

AI and Google Street View have created 'digital twins' of living trees in North American cities – part of a huge simulation that could...
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