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25 September 2021

Issue 3353

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The UK energy crisis shows why it is time to look beyond fossil fuels

Environment

The UK energy crisis shows why it is time to look beyond fossil fuels

News
A third of the world's food goes to waste – here's how to stop the rot

Humans

A third of the world's food goes to waste – here's how to stop the rot

Features
Everyday aches: Why it’s time to take minor ailments more seriously

Humans

Everyday aches: Why it’s time to take minor ailments more seriously

Features
The black hole paradox that thwarts our understanding of reality

Physics

The black hole paradox that thwarts our understanding of reality

Features

Table of contents

Leaders

The UK energy crisis shows why it is time to look beyond fossil fuels

Environment

The UK energy crisis shows why it is time to look beyond fossil fuels

MANY critiques of the UK's unfolding gas supply crisis have focused on the peculiarities of how its energy market is regulated . But that is to ignore the global scope of this crisis. In Europe, for example, gas prices are up 170 per cent since this January . The UK is particularly vulnerable to gas …

News

News

A green rubbish bin being loaded onto a refuse cart in the UK

Environment

Call for English households with bulging waste bins to pay extra

A bin tax in England could limit the amount of rubbish people throw out Households in England should be made to pay for the amount of rubbish they throw away and be banned from putting plastic in their bins to boost recycling, UK government advisers have urged ministers. Domestic recycling rates in England have stalled …

News

Environment

Global demand for fish expected to almost double by 2050

News

Health

Cheap covid-19 antibody test shows if you have immunity in 5 minutes

News

Life

Ancient spiders locked in amber died looking after their offspring

News

New climate plans fall far short of limiting global warming to 1.5°C

News

Space

Astronomers may have found a moon orbiting a rogue planet with no star

News

Technology

Ancient Mesopotamian cuneiform tablets could be decoded by an AI

News

Space

NASA’s Perseverance rover has been hit by 100 ‘dust devils’ on Mars

News

Technology

City-wide quantum data network in China is the largest ever built

News

Space

UK night skies will be among worst hit by satellite megaconstellations

News

Technology

Fake TikTok accounts could spread disinformation ahead of German vote

News

Life

Cats refuse to snuggle with objects that smell like their owners

News

Health

Having HPV while pregnant linked to increased risk of premature birth

News

Life

Mystery microbes have been lurking unsuspected in most coral species

News

Technology

Leaf-inspired material makes different liquids flow in opposite ways

News

Technology

Quantum computer helps to design a better quantum computer

News

Space

Here are the Astronomy Photographer of the Year winners

News

Space

Mushballs inside Uranus and Neptune may solve an atmospheric mystery

News

Life

Watch cuttlefish migrate together in a defensive line with a lookout

News

Health

Woman who first gained sense of smell at age 24 finds it disturbing

News

Space

The BepiColombo spacecraft is about to make its first Mercury fly-by

News

Space

Maps of planetary nurseries will help the complex hunt for alien life

News

Life

We can now bioengineer catnip instead of extracting it from plants

News

Space

SpaceX’s Inspiration4 marks a shift towards privacy for space tourists

News

Environment

WHO calls for lower limits on air pollution to save millions of lives

News

Health

Why covid-19 hospitalisations may soar in England despite vaccination

News

Analysis

Woman and child wearing colorful pair of woolly socks warming cold feet in front of heating radiator in winter time. Electric or gas heater at home. Part of body, selective focus.

Environment

Blame fossil fuels, not renewables, for the UK's winter energy crisis

People in the UK face higher energy bills this winter Soaring wholesale gas prices have left the UK in an energy crisis, with fears for vulnerable households as bills rise and a wave of energy firms folding. In the 1990s, the UK made a “dash for gas”. In recent years, it has leaned on the …

News

Environment

Ecological grief is devastating but it may help us stop climate change

News

Health

Changing how drugs are approved in England mustn't endanger safety

News

Features

The black hole paradox that thwarts our understanding of reality

Physics

The black hole paradox that thwarts our understanding of reality

Black holes devour stuff and then shrivel away over billions of years. Explaining what happens to anything that falls in explodes our current theories of physics, says cosmologist Paul Davies

Features

Humans

Everyday aches: Why it’s time to take minor ailments more seriously

Features

Humans

A third of the world's food goes to waste – here's how to stop the rot

Features

Culture

Dune review: Action aplenty, but a lack of depth and emotion

Humans

Dune review: Action aplenty, but a lack of depth and emotion

Inheriting mining rights on Arrakis is a poisoned chalice for Paul (right) Film Dune In UK cinemas from 22 October ONE of the most anticipated flicks at this year's Venice International Film Festival, Denis Villeneuve's Dune is the first chapter of a new two-part adaptation of Frank Herbert's 1965 novel. The story begins in AD …

Culture

Humans

Fire and Ice review: A fascinating tour of weird space volcanoes

Culture

Don’t Miss: An immersive journey into ancient cave art culture

Culture

Humans

Psychonauts 2 review: A fun yet sensitive take on mental health

Culture

More

Puzzle #132: Can you work out on which day a quiz will be given?

Puzzle #132: Can you work out on which day a quiz will be given?

#132 One of these days Dear class, I told you that we would have a quiz next week, and many of you have asked on which day it will be given. An understandable question, so I have helpfully provided the answer below. A: The quiz will be on Friday, or else Tuesday. B: The quiz …

Regulars

Humans

How to sous vide steak using a beer cooler box

Regulars

Tom Gauld on the two ways to explain scientific research

Regulars

Twisteddoodles prepares to defend a thesis

Regulars

Regulars

The UK’s plan to measure the bendiness of a banana using furlongs

The UK’s plan to measure the bendiness of a banana using furlongs

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