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Chen Ly

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Chen Ly is a news reporter who writes about the latest across science and technology, including health, physics, life and the environment. She holds a BSc in physics from the University of Bath and an MSc in climate change: environment, science and policy from King's College London, and is currently pursuing a PhD in environmental policy at Imperial College London. She was previously New Scientist’s social media manager. You can contact her at chen.ly@newscientist.com.

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Paul Jutte (L) and Alexa Johnson (R) of Cincinnati, Ohio, counter a counter-protest of a Women's March rally against the National Rifle Association by conservative gun rights activists on Pennsylvania Avenue outside the Department of Justice in Washington, U.S., July 15, 2017. REUTERS/James Lawler Duggan

Society

What should we do about societal divisions that run deeper than ever?

Culture

The town of Colonnata (Italy), which lies beneath marble quarries in the Apuan Alps. Colonnata is famous for the lard produced there, and for being inhabited by marble quarrymen.

Earth

Incredible images tell the tale of the world’s most prized marble

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MILTON, ON - APRIL 13: Professor Tim Patterson of Carleton University transports a frozen core sample at Crawford Lake on April 13, 2023 in Milton, Ontario. Patterson is a member of the Anthropocene Working Group and has been conducting research based on frozen core samples from the lake. He is among a group of scientists who think we have entered a new geological epoch. (Photo by Bonnie Jo Mount/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Earth

The Anthropocene was officially spurned in 2024, but the idea lives on

News

Images contain stitched photos to create a panorama. Top: Historical panorama image from the Norwegian Polar Institute from 1967 (reference n. NP051261), shows the glaciers Kongsbreen and Kronobreen merging and surrounding Colleth??gda Island, outside Ny ??lesund, Svalbard. Bottom: Panorama image taken from the same position by photographer Christian Aslund on the 24th August 2024. Greenpeace has commissioned photographer Christian Aslund to continue a project he began in 2002 - to carry out visual research of glaciers in Svalbard and document their retreat over time. While sailing aboard the Greenpeace vessel ???Witness???, Aslund revisited glaciers he first documented in 2002 as well as photographing others, new to this project. The Arctic has been warming more than twice as fast as the rest of the world, due to

Environment

Striking photos highlight the stark reality of Arctic glacier melt

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Endurance THE DISCOVERY OF SHACKLETON'S LEGENDARY SHIP By John Shears and Nico Vincent

Earth

Striking image shows well-preserved wreck of Shackleton’s doomed ship

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UNSPECIFIED - CIRCA 1754: Marie Curie (1867-1934) Polish-born French physicist in her laboratory in 1912, the year after she received here second Nobel prize, this time for chemistry. (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images)

Physics

Rich biography of Marie Curie shows how she helped women into science

Culture

The winner of Nikon Small World photography competition went to a shot of tumour cells in a mouse's brain

Life

These stunning photos celebrate the intricacy of the microscopic world

News

Life

Living microbes found deep inside 2-billion-year-old rock

News

This mosaic image of the magnificent starburst galaxy, Messier 82 (M82) is the sharpest wide-angle view ever obtained of M82. It is a galaxy remarkable for its webs of shredded clouds and flame-like plumes of glowing hydrogen blasting out from its central regions where young stars are being born 10 times faster than they are inside in our Milky Way Galaxy.

Space

Stellar views of some of the most spectacular sights in the universe

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Passiflora lady margaret.full colour Seeds: Time Capsules of Life Rob Kesseler & Wolfgang Stuppy Papadakis Publisher Publication date: 16th September 2024

Life

Close-up photographs of seeds show their intricate beauty

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380363 03: William Protor polishes a model flying saucer on property near Jamul, CA, October 15, 2000, purchased by the Unarius Academy of Science to serve as a future landing site for

Space

Two new books explore how UFOs captured the world’s imagination

Culture

Stunning photos of life above and below water

Life

Stunning photos of life above and below water

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