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whales and dolphins

Midgley

Technology

Inventor hero was a one-man environmental disaster

From poisonous cars to the destruction of the ozone layer, Thomas Midgley almost single-handedly invented a global environmental crisis, finds Fred Pearce

Features

skyscraper

Technology

The stories we tell have the power to shape our future

Culture

Energy security is possible without nuclear power or fracked gas

Earth

Energy security is possible without nuclear power or fracked gas

Comment

A pregnant woman with a large glass of red wine

Health

Drinking small amounts while pregnant may affect the baby’s face

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Festivals 2017: Feel at one with the universe

Earth

Festivals 2017: Feel at one with the universe

Culture

Gardnerella vaginalis that causes bacterial vaginosis

Health

Unhealthy vagina microbiome can make HIV drugs less effective

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Governments sued over climate change, with banks and firms next

Earth

Governments sued over climate change, with banks and firms next

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Macaque with stolen goods

Life

Monkey mafia steal your stuff, then sell it back for a cracker

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Trump’s budget jettisons ‘irreplaceable’ marine mammals agency

Earth

Trump’s budget jettisons ‘irreplaceable’ marine mammals agency

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Graecopithecus seems to be different from any other ancient ape found in Europe

Life

Our common ancestor with chimps may be from Europe, not Africa

The last common ancestor of chimps and humans was an eastern European, claims team that analysed fossils of a 7-million-year-old ape from Bulgaria and Greece

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Earth

Narwhals could help us measure melting glaciers underwater

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Physics

What the end of the atomic renaissance means for nuclear power

Insight

Earth

Where the wind blows: Mapping our wildest gusts

Features

Health

A little cannabis every day might keep brain ageing at bay

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