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UK visa for top talent excludes graduates of African universities

The High Potential Individual visa is intended to attract graduates from around the world to work in the UK, but its criteria excludes anyone who studied at a university in Africa

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Gene edited vitamin D tomatoes

Environment

Gene-edited tomato offers new plant-based source of vitamin D

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Environment

Global food crisis is leaving millions hungry, but there are solutions

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Wood for recycling

Technology

Waste wood chemically recycled to produce material stronger than steel

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Claims that girls have a 'natural' aversion to physics are harmful

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Claims that girls have a 'natural' aversion to physics are harmful

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The Department of Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS)

Technology

Launch of UK 'moonshot' ARIA research agency delayed until end of year

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How to make your own yogurt

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Insects on Car Number Plate

Environment

Flying insects splatting on cars have dropped by 60 per cent in UK

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Planting out sweetcorn in blocks.

Humans

How to grow the best sweetcorn you've ever tasted

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Environment

Insects and lab-grown meat could cut food emissions by 80 per cent

Switching to "novel foods", like algae and lab-grown milk, could bring huge environmental benefits compared with the typical European diet

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Technology

Stress-testing sausages may give vegan products a meat-like mouthfeel

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Environment

Why is there a sunflower oil shortage and what can I use instead?

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Space

Ancient computer may have had its clock set to 23 December 178 BC

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We must recognise science’s unsung global pioneers to alter its future

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