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Environment

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 green transition as a fiction

Culture

Before the Stone Age: Were the first tools made from plants not rocks?

Humans

Before the Stone Age: Were the first tools made from plants not rocks?

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A section of Michelangelo's 'The Flood' depicting a woman with suspected breast cancer

Health

Michelangelo's 'The Flood' seems to depict a woman with breast cancer

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Macrophotograph of a huge Eastern hornet (orientalis Vespa) against a blue sky on a Sunny summer day

Life

Hornets can hold their alcohol like no other animal on Earth

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A wild bottlenose dolphin having a health assessment

Life

Dolphins breathe in microplastics and it could be damaging their lungs

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Readers deserve better from popular science books

Society

Readers deserve better from popular science books

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Read an extract from Rachel Kushner's Creation Lake

Humans

Read an extract from Rachel Kushner's Creation Lake

Culture

Health

MDMA was hyped as a promising treatment for PTSD – what went wrong?

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Humans

AI discovers hundreds of ancient Nazca drawings in Peruvian desert

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Media portrayals peddle a dangerous fiction about substance misuse

Health

Media portrayals peddle a dangerous fiction about substance misuse

Narratives around addiction often reduce it to a series of poor choices, lack of values and weakness. This has real-world consequences, warns Anna Wolfe

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The best new science fiction books of September 2024

Culture

Health

Arts and crafts seem to boost well-being more than employment

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Earth

Epic images show old mines transformed into a library, lab and museum

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Health

Why midlife is the perfect time to take control of your future health

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