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Pacific an Exhibition by Sax Impey
The work draws upon the unique experiences of the 60 day voyage, including both extraordinary landfalls and the time spent sailing one of the most remote parts of the ocean. (read more)
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Have a Wee Drink? Urine Trouble if You Don’t
Taste test gauges how recycled wastewater performs against bottled and tap water (read more)
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Buzz, Feed? Keeping up with the Bees
Worldwide importance of honey bees for natural habitats captured in new report (read more)
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Astronauts Can Now Identify Genes in Space
First-ever sample-to-sequence process entirely aboard a space station (read more)
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Did You Guess the Winners of Global Warming?
Climate change may favor large plant eaters over small competitors (read more)
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The Physics of Coffee and How They’ll Fix Oceans
Layering in cafe lattes yields insights for engineering, medicine and environment (read more)
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Greenouse Gases, Atmospheric Methane – Cows Say ‘It Wasn’t Us!’
Researchers establish long-sought source of ocean methane (read more)
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Do Mekong River Dams Need to Ruin Villages?
Towards an algorithm for dam operators that will increase fish harvests and still generate power (read more)
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Glycine: Cheap, Readily Available Energy. But From Where?
Researchers generate electricity from low-cost biomaterial (read more)
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The Many Uses of Dead Baby Whales
Blue Planet II’s weekly reminder that you are a sh*t (read more)
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Alchemical Ponderings – Where Exactly Does Gold Come From?
An international group of scientists reveals the mystery about the origin of gold (read more)
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The Flip Side: Are Blue Whales Left or Right ‘Handed’?
Scientists discover most blue whales are ‘right-handed’ – except when they swim upward (read more)
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Be Nice to Cows, Science Says So
Brazilian study shows how small changes on farms can lower stress levels of cattle (read more)
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Mega-Rats! Does Accelerated Living = Accelerated Evolution?
Explosion of rats, clovers, bedbugs, mosquitoes unintended evolutionary consequence of urbanization (read more)
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Don’t Throw Stones! Inside the Smart Solar Greenhouse
Solar greenhouses generate electricity and grow healthy crops (read more)
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The Trump Effect: Blaming Liberals for Ecology
Rise of populism affects wildlife management in US (read more)
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Avoiding Mouldy Wine? Nature Knows Best
Wild grape yeast could be more effective than pesticides in preventing grape molds (read more)
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Want More Attentive Kids? Get Them to the Green Spaces
Living close to green spaces is associated with better attention in children (read more)
Society
Cycling London’s Undercurrents: The Curve of the Tyburn
Following the hidden rivers of London is an exercise in history, sociology, architecture… and exercise (read more)
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Good News: We Can Terraform Mars. Bad News: It’ll Stink
A mission to Mars could make its own oxygen thanks to plasma technology (read more)
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Geometry, Dreams and Light: Stuart Forbes [Interview]
Stuart Forbes on Richard Rogers, Architecture and the Grand Process (read more)
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Broccoli: Love it? Hate it? Shut Up and Eat It.
Broccoli: Because a windy butt’s better than a leaky gut (read more)
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Desalination: Cleaner, Better Ways to Turn Deserts Green
MIT researchers tackle what happens when the river runs dry (read more)
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Ctrl+Alt+Psilocibin: How Magic Mushrooms Reset Depressed Brains
Magic mushrooms may ‘reset’ the brains of depressed patients (read more)
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Love the Sea? Clean the Sea!
People’s love of the seas could be the key for plastic pollution solution (read more)
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Hurricanes are Real, Even if You Deny Climate Change
Post-Irma, the desperate pseudoscience of deniers is a cacophony of crazy (read more)
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Repairing the Rainforest – It Works!
Restored forest now shelters dozens of endangered species (read more)
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Nature Imagery Soothes Prisoners
Nature images, shown to people deprived of access to nature, can reduce tension and help defuse anger (read more)
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Greening Jungles with Orange Peel
How orange peels revived a Costa Rican forest (read more)
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I haven’t jumped on the Corbyn express: Chris T-T: Interview (Part Two)
‘If you sing about anything other than universal themes, you put people off’ (read more)