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Leaders

Environment

Our failure to kick the flying habit means aviation needs to go green

Environmental principles tend to evaporate when it comes to plane travel, so we must redouble efforts to introduce tech that can deliver guilt-free flying

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Health

Resolutions are rarely easy so take our advice on goals worth pursuing

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Technology

Ski exoskeleton boosts leg power and reduces tiredness on the slopes

Stay on the slopes longer with the help of an exoskeleton SKIERS and snowboarders could get an extra boost with the help of an  exoskeleton . The device helps someone hurtling down a mountain by providing extra power to their legs during turns and by cushioning big impacts, allowing them to stay on the slopes for …

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Life

Cannibalistic African clawed frog eats tadpoles of its relatives

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Physics

Droplets don't have to be round - here's one squished into a square

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Space

NASA probe will hurtle past the most distant object we’ve ever visited

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Physics

Ultracold atoms can make strange and beautiful quantum fireworks

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Environment

DNA from 6000-year-old chewing gum reveals how an ancient woman lived

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Life

Lost 'Darwinia' islands could be origin of species in the Galapagos

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Mind

Rich people give more to charity when you make them feel powerful

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Humans

Biggest archaeological dig in Europe will uncover UK's buried history

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Health

A skin test after a traumatic event may identify those at risk of PTSD

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Technology

UK army tests eagle-inspired paragliding drone for delivering supplies

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Life

Crayfish experience something like anxiety when they shed their armour

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Health

Young people’s blood is being tested as a treatment for Parkinson’s

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Physics

Intel’s quest to build the world’s first true quantum computer

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Analysis

Space

Women are finally getting equal access to the Hubble Space Telescope

Now everyone can have a turn The Hubble Space Telescope has a gender problem. For at least the past 16 years, female researchers have had their requests to use the world’s most important telescope accepted at significantly lower rates than their male colleagues. But a switch to reviewing anonymised proposals is changing that, showing that selection processes can be biased against …

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Technology

AI could make it impossible for artists and novelists to make a living

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Comment

A New Year vow for our leaders? Start taking climate change seriously

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Comment

Surrogacy should be a relationship, not a transaction

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Aperture

Health

The ultimate kitchen: the Danish food lab designing our future meals

THIS is the Future Consumer Lab. It might be in Denmark, but hygge it isn't. The Danish word means comfort, cosiness, well-being and simplicity – while the vibe here is more Heston Blumenthal meets Brave New World . But hang on. Set up by Wender Bredie at the University of Copenhagen's Department of Food Science, …

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Features

Technology

Our addiction to flying is ruining the climate, but it doesn't have to

From simply flying planes in straighter lines to sucking fuel from thin air, a raft of new technologies that could help us fly guilt-free are in the offing

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Physics

World's most powerful telescope takes us to the edge of a black hole

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Health

A scientific guide to the resolutions that are really worth the effort

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Culture

Life

Books of 2019: Our pick of the best forthcoming reads

From what to do about Einstein to tricks for survival to doing away with sexist neurotrash, it is looking like a good year for books

Culture

Exhibition previews: Visions of a better tomorrow brighten 2019

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Life

Don't Miss: The art of colour and the science of persuasion

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More

Life

From the archives: When Soviet tanks crushed Czech science

Fifty years ago, the liberalising hope of the Prague Spring was abruptly ended when the USSR invaded - and Czechoslovakia lost a generation of scientists

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Feedback: A nifty trick to put a spring in your step

Feedback is our weekly column of bizarre stories, implausible advertising claims, confusing instructions and more

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Letters

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