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Table of contents
Leaders
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Environment
'Massive failure': The world has missed all its biodiversity targets
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Life
The horn-like knobs on a giraffe's head can be a deadly lightning rod
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Environment
Washing our clothes has created 5.6 million tonnes of microfibre waste
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Environment
Australian stinging tree injects animals with spider-venom-like toxin
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Life
Watch titan triggerfish jump out of the water to catch and eat crabs
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Health
Scientists dismiss new claims that the coronavirus was made in a lab
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Health
Your shoes could be increasing the risk of a painful foot condition
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Health
Apple’s new watch has a blood oxygen monitor – what is it good for?
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Space
BepiColombo may be able to search for signs of life as it passes Venus
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Physics
Supercool experiment reveals water is actually two liquids in one
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Health
The purpose of sleep appears to change when we are toddlers
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Health
Most fertility-tracking apps are unreliable but free apps work best
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Technology
AI camera can tell what surfaces feel like with just a glance
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Space
Most space travellers are men despite slow rise in female astronauts
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Humans
People in Cape Verde evolved better malaria resistance in 550 years
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Health
Children’s allergic reactions to nuts spike at Halloween and Easter
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Environment
Air pollution in China may have caused millions of deaths since 2000
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Environment
Five named tropical storms pictured in the Atlantic
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Humans
US science news biased against people with names of non-British origin
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Health
India about to overtake the US with highest covid-19 caseload globally
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Health
How the UK can get its catastrophic coronavirus testing under control
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When did the coronavirus really reach the US and Europe?
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Health
Doctor's diary: How can we deal with the long covid-19 symptoms?
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