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Simple plan could raise the billions needed to stem biodiversity loss

Environment

Simple plan could raise the billions needed to stem biodiversity loss

A 1 per cent levy on global retail sales would plug a funding gap of $200 billion when it comes to saving nature. Can COP16 get the world to agree to this ambitious proposal?

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Simulation of a black hole

Space

What does it mean to “look” at a black hole?

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2CTJX4J Truth sandwich journalism concept on standard practice for reporting debunking lies, i.e. to report the facts, then the lie, then reiterate the truth

Humans

We're homing in on the best ways to tackle misinformation

Leader

Readers deserve better from popular science books

Society

Readers deserve better from popular science books

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Portrait of robot dog sitting on wooden floor, 3d rendering

Technology

Fast forward to the fluffy revolution, when robot pets win our hearts

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Digitally generated image of man looking at the sunset in the horizon through a big round open window in a wall.

Mind

The relentless push for productivity misconstrues how our brains work

Leader

Next-generation technology is a critical mid-step in dementia care

Health

Next-generation technology is a critical mid-step in dementia care

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Society

Nobel prizes are still failing to celebrate the diversity of science

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F6M33H RELEASE DATE: Dec 18, 2007. ORIGINAL MOVIE TITLE: Blade Runner: The Final Cut. STUDIO: World Artists. PLOT: Twenty-five years after the initial release of BLADE RUNNER, director Ridley Scott uses archival footage to re-create his original vision for the sci-fi classic. Based on a story by Philip K. Dick, the film is set in Los Angeles in 2019. Earth has become a polluted and miserable dystopia, and many people have fled to live 'Off World' on other planets. This dreary vision of the future features replicants: lifelike robots built as slaves for human use. When a replicant escapes his owner, a

Society

Why we need to fight back against sexy Asian lady robots

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It's parents who are anxious about smartphones, not their children

Technology

It's parents who are anxious about smartphones, not their children

Smartphones have indeed created an "anxious generation", but it isn't young people, it is their parents, argues neuroscientist Dean Burnett

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Environment

How genetically modified crops could feed us and help safeguard nature

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Mathematics

If we reassessed what maths is, perhaps it wouldn't make us so anxious

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51 Live: What we are most excited about seeing this year

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Physics

We physicists could learn a lot by stepping beyond our specialisms

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