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What climate change has done to Walden's woods

Earth

What climate change has done to Walden's woods

A hymn to citizen science, Walden Warming by Richard Primack seeks the reality of climate change in the effects that ordinary people have recorded

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Start-ups fuel boom in small-scale nuclear power

Technology

Start-ups fuel boom in small-scale nuclear power

Analysis

Digitising cave art will prevent it being lost forever

Technology

Digitising cave art will prevent it being lost forever

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We turn brainwaves into sound for music and medicine

Technology

We turn brainwaves into sound for music and medicine

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London mayor Boris talks brain scans and robot cars

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London mayor Boris talks brain scans and robot cars

Opinion

Superhuman cyborg drummer plays his first live gig

Technology

Superhuman cyborg drummer plays his first live gig

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Pro violinists fail to spot Stradivarius in blind test

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Pro violinists fail to spot Stradivarius in blind test

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Global plan to shush ships for the sake of whales

Life

Global plan to shush ships for the sake of whales

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Almost half of new electricity is now clean and green

Earth

Almost half of new electricity is now clean and green

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Redesigned crops could produce far more fuel

Earth

Redesigned crops could produce far more fuel

A genetic tweak has made it far easier to unlock the valuable chemicals held inside plants. It could lead to more environmentally friendly biofuels

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Life

Time for Japan to get real over whale research

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Technology

Coal fuelled China long before industrial revolution

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Mind

Why do we love to organise knowledge into trees?

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Life

Bite-sized chunks of brain science don't quite satisfy

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