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The Crypto Industry Is Helping Trump Pick SEC Chair

The president-elect's transition team is consulting with...

Forest schools don’t actually boost most children’s mental health

Swapping classrooms for the woods doesn't appear...

The radical treatments bringing people back from the brink of death

Reperfusion technologies that can reanimate human brains...

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Forest schools don’t actually boost most children’s mental health

Swapping classrooms for the woods doesn't appear to improve most children's mental health, but they may still enjoy it

The radical treatments bringing people back from the brink of death

Reperfusion technologies that can reanimate human brains are raising the possibility that death could...

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...

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...

Watch elephants use a hose to shower themselves – and prank others

Asian elephants at Berlin Zoo show impressive skill when using a hose as a tool, and even appear to sabotage each other by stopping...

Why does our universe have something instead of nothing?

In order to figure out how something came from nothing, we first need to explore the different types of nothing

We are a long way from pregnancy being safe on Mars

Dangerous radiation reaches Mars at levels we aren't exposed to on Earth, which makes the Red Planet a particularly dangerous place to be during...

Why hairy animals shake themselves dry

The brain pathway that causes hairy mammals like mice and dogs to shake themselves dry appears to have more to do with pressure than...

Slick trick separates oil and water with 99.9 per cent purity

Oil and water can be separated efficiently by pumping the mixture through thin channels between two semipermeable membranes

Bird flu antibodies found in dairy workers in Michigan and Colorado

Blood tests have shown that about 7 per cent of workers on dairy farms that had H5N1 outbreaks had antibodies against the disease

DNA analysis rewrites the stories of people buried in Pompeii

Genetic analysis of five individuals preserved as plaster casts in the ruins of Pompeii contradicts established beliefs about the people and their relationships

Knots made in a weird quantum fluid can last forever

Shapes created by vortices in water often fall apart, but an odd quantum fluid made from ultracold atoms could support vortex knots that never...

Why do we burn more coal and wood than ever, asks a provocative book

In More and More and More, Jean-Baptiste Fressoz argues that tackling climate change means rethinking our history of energy consumption – and exposing the...

See nature in close-up in these stunning photographs

Shortlisted for the Close-up Photographer of the Year contest, these images zoom in on animals in all their glory

What preparing for an asteroid strike teaches us about climate change

Averting an asteroid strike will need many of the same skills we must hone to tackle climate change and future pandemics

In satire Rumours, diplomatic communiques collide with the end times

A stellar cast play leaders of G7 countries facing an existential crisis in Rumours, a smart film about communication, diplomatic nonsense and not coping,...

How can I help a friend who is relentlessly negative about life?

From just listening to reframing the situation, there are a few ways you can help someone with a negative outlook, says advice columnist David...

Conspiracy theorists are turning their attention back to HPV vaccines

We are living in a vaccine-hesitant moment, with conspiracy theories thriving on social media. We need to push back, says Simon Williams
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