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Growing sugarcane could help cool Brazil

Earth

Growing sugarcane could help cool Brazil

Converting Brazil's existing farmland to sugarcane for biofuel could slightly cool the local climate

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How to be happy: The optimist manifesto

Opinion

Why 30 years of AIDS is only the tip of an iceberg

Health

Why 30 years of AIDS is only the tip of an iceberg

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Shipping noise pulps organs of squid and octopuses

Earth

Shipping noise pulps organs of squid and octopuses

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Japan struggles to save power before a blackout summer

Technology

Japan struggles to save power before a blackout summer

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Science pervades western thought – but should it?

CultureLab

A single source for clean water and fuel

Earth

A single source for clean water and fuel

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Your questions answered about the science of flight

CultureLab

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Decoding the message of the seas

CultureLab

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Putting the DIY in DNA

Part field guide and part critique, Marcus Wohlsen's Biopunk navigates the contentious new terrain of biohacking

CultureLab

Sleuthing stories from the metamorphosis files

CultureLab

The moral compass built into social animals' brains

CultureLab

A bad workman blames his digital technology

CultureLab

How will you cope, living with your avatar?

CultureLab

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