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Bubbles

Technology

Watch a blast of sound turn floating drops into bubbles

Sound can counteract gravity, making droplets float in the air. It can also turn them into bubbles, which could prove useful for creating hollow materials

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wine and meat

Environment

France going veggie would save 1m litres of water per person each year

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ocean scene

Life

Our thirst for water is turning the oceans saltier

Features

A diver shines a torch on some ice from underneath

Environment

A warm-water time bomb could spell disaster for Arctic sea ice

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water sign

Technology

Flint water crisis: How AI is finding thousands of hazardous pipes

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A man with a fog net

Technology

Nanofibre net draws drinking water from the air for drought-hit people

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Mona Hanna-Attisha

Health

This doctor risked her career to end Flint’s water-poisoning crisis

Features

Only 13 per cent of the world's oceans are considered a wilderness

Environment

Only 13 per cent of the world's oceans are considered a wilderness

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Alarm as ice loss from Antarctica triples in the past five years

Earth

Alarm as ice loss from Antarctica triples in the past five years

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water artwork

Earth

H2Oh! Water is actually two liquids disguised as one

Earth's most precious liquid is weird, and if it wasn't we would die. Now experiments have uncovered its secret: it's not one liquid, it's two

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Earth

H2Oh! 10 mysteries of water

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Life

Trees may have a ‘heartbeat’ that is so slow we never noticed it

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Space

Ocean-covered planets may not be the places to search for life

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Space

Boiling water on Mars could make the planet's sand levitate

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