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An above view of the front of a container ship moving through deep, blue ocean waters on a sunny day with dry hills in the background on shore. The ship is fully loaded with colourful, truck-sized cargo containers.

Environment

Decarbonising the shipping industry will cost more than $1 trillion

Powering all shipping vessels with zero-emission fuels by 2050 would slash the industry's emissions, but it would require between $1 trillion and $1.4 trillion of investment

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PD30RR Humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae), swimming together, underwater view, Tonga, Western, Fiji

Life

Web of blood vessels helps protect whales’ brains while swimming

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Umbilical cord 'milking' cuts brain injury risk for babies born limp

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Environment

We should pursue speculative climate solutions like quantum batteries

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A humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) in the Pacific Ocean off the island Rurutu in French Polynesia

Life

Whale songs can spread between groups nearly 8000 kilometres apart

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Deepwater Horizon oil spill linked to changes in dolphin gene activity

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Magic Mushroom Spores

Health

Psilocybin therapy seems to help some people give up drinking alcohol

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A pregnant person receives the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine against covid-19 in Schwenksville, Pennsylvania in February 2021

Health

Covid-19 vaccines in pregnancy not linked to miscarriage or stillbirth

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Unlike in other primates, the human voice box has lost small tissue structures called vocal membranes, which may have been involved in the evolution of speech

Humans

Losing parts of our voice box may have helped humans evolve to speak

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Catching the coronavirus after the 34th week of pregnancy may raise the risk of a premature birth seven-fold

Health

Coronavirus in late pregnancy raises premature birth risk seven-fold

Testing positive for the coronavirus in the last three months of pregnancy may double the risk of a premature birth, rising to a seven-fold increased risk if infected after 34 weeks

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Physics

Time loops may not be forbidden by physics after all

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Health

Why two-thirds of IVF embryos suddenly stop developing

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Health

Advising alcohol abstinence in pregnancy may do more harm than good

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Environment

Deepwater Horizon oil spill did no harm to BP's long-term share value

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