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Is your salad going to kill you?

Health

Is your salad going to kill you?

Plants need nitrates for good growth, but they can also accumulate in leaves of crops like rocket. So are foods like this safe to eat, wonders James Wong

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Environment

All the reasons why organic food doesn’t deserve such bad press

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Covid-19: The science of uncertainty can help us make better choices

Humans

Covid-19: The science of uncertainty can help us make better choices

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Twitter was once a fun place – now it is heading towards destruction

Technology

Twitter was once a fun place – now it is heading towards destruction

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China has shut all of its wild animal markets – it was long overdue

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China has shut all of its wild animal markets – it was long overdue

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Going car-free was painful – but you should do it too

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Going car-free was painful – but you should do it too

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E-scooters are a disaster for cities – but we must embrace them

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E-scooters are a disaster for cities – but we must embrace them

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The atmosphere gets in the way of the universe’s most amazing objects

Space

The atmosphere gets in the way of the universe’s most amazing objects

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The 'ancestral diet' doesn't make sense and relies on lazy stereotypes

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The 'ancestral diet' doesn't make sense and relies on lazy stereotypes

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A person in a hazmat suit reads a piece of paper

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Coronavirus: How maths is helping to answer crucial covid-19 questions

Getting a full picture of the coronavirus outbreak is extremely difficult. Maths can help fill in some of the gaps, says Adam Kucharski

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Technology

Election cyberattacks? It’s incompetence we need to worry about

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Environment

Net zero goals are galvanising action on climate change at long last

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Humans

Same-sex attraction isn't an evolutionary paradox - here's why

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Environment

We can’t let Boris Johnson politicise crucial COP26 climate talks

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