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In this aerial picture taken on October 23, 2020, smoke rises from the fields as farmers burn straw stubble on the outskirts of Fatehgarh Sahib, in the northern Indian state of Punjab

Technology

A large nuclear war could leave 5 billion people without enough to eat

The after-effects of nuclear war would be catastrophic for agriculture. Simulations show billions of people could starve depending on the size of the conflict

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Having the left or right hemisphere of the brain removed as a child to treat epileptic seizures may not affect their ability to recognise words or faces as an adult

Health

People with half a brain removed do well at face and word recognition

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Beaked whale skull
Environment

Is sound pollution killing our whales? Exhibition explores the issues

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D79TNY Rubidium Chemical Element)

Physics

Quantum computer made of 6 super-sized atoms could imitate the brain

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Life

Saiga antelopes have increased 10-fold after mass die-off in 2015

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Earth could theoretically host two more moons the same size as the current moon. If the extra moons were smaller, it could have even more.

Space

Physicists work out how many moons Earth could have

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Long-tailed macaque

Life

Monkeys in Bali use stones as sex toys to fill their leisure time

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Meteor

Space

Interstellar meteorite may be awaiting discovery on the sea floor

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Illustration of Mars being bombarded with solar radiation

Space

Mars astronauts would get unsafe radiation doses even with shielding

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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

There has been a lack of clarity over the risks of covid-19 and vaccines against it during pregnancy throughout much of the pandemic, with research now overwhelmingly supporting that pregnant people get vaccinated

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Society

US CO2 shortage worsened by contaminated gas from an extinct volcano

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Physics

Ignition confirmed in a nuclear fusion experiment for the first time

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Humans

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

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Technology

Hovering robots could get more lift by ‘treading water’ in the air

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