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Calculations may have overestimated extinction rates

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Calculations may have overestimated extinction rates

Species are being driven to extinction – but perhaps not as rapidly as we thought, because of a mathematical error that has gone unnoticed for decades

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Electric vehicles herald rise of the in-car app

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Electric vehicles herald rise of the in-car app

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DNA chip test will track down illegal fish

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DNA chip test will track down illegal fish

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Renewables may supply 80 per cent of our energy by 2050

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Asteroids make life's raw materials

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Asteroids make life's raw materials

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US navy chief: I'm on a mission to stop using oil

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US navy chief: I'm on a mission to stop using oil

Opinion

Time to put weather forecasters on the spot

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Time to put weather forecasters on the spot

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Life

Stay of execution for world's fish stocks

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Unexpected fungus decimates Australia's pistachio crop

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Why have so many tornadoes hit the US this month?

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Why have so many tornadoes hit the US this month?

April has been a deadly month for the US tornado states. 51¶¯Âþ explains how severe the outbreak has been, and what has caused it

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Brainless box jellyfish know which way is up

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World's largest freshwater fish gets life extension

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Unnatural selection: Mutant mosquitoes take the subway

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Unnatural selection: The race against climate change

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