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These are the worst ready-made sandwiches for the climate

Earth

These are the worst ready-made sandwiches for the climate

Producing ready-made sandwiches can generate twice as much carbon dioxide as simply making them at home, and one particular filling is egregiously bad

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Conceptual art of network

Technology

Clever maths will stop hackers spying on the quantum internet

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New Scientists looking through pink and blue dishes

Humans

Survey reveals extreme gender bias plagues STEM – it must change

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In 2018, science needs its own version of the #MeToo campaign

Humans

In 2018, science needs its own version of the #MeToo campaign

Culture

Black hole

Space

Parallel universes could solve a big problem with black holes

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Starry Night painting

Technology

New blues: The quest to make the world’s rarest colour

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quantum computing

Technology

2018 preview: Quantum computers to overtake ordinary machines

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Michel Chasles

Physics

Missives impossible: How gravity fell victim to fake news

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Nocturnal sun artwork

Earth

Bright skies at night: The riddle of the nocturnal sun

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holly wreath

Life

The holly hunters banking berries to save a species

Christmas in many parts of the world isn’t complete without holly sprigs, but logging the trees’ genetic diversity is a distinctly prickly business

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Life

Cheep taste: The birds that adorn their nests with tat

Features

Humans

We are not amused: Victorian experiments not to try at home

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Life

Busy doing nothing: How sloths mastered life in the slow lane

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Humans

The secrets of your past that lurk inside your ears

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