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How to source peat-free compost for your garden

How to source peat-free compost for your garden

26 May 2021

This month, the UK announced that peat-based composts would no longer be sold to home gardeners by 2024. Luckily there are plenty of good alternatives, says Clare Wilson
Partial sight restored for man who is blind thanks to optogenetics

Partial sight restored for man who is blind thanks to optogenetics

24 May 2021

Optogenetics involves modifying cells to make them sensitive to light – and now the first results of a treatment using the technique to restore sight have been published
Dressed in a spacesuit which is a replica of the one worn by Tim Peake on his mission to the International Space Station

Project Hail Mary review: Andy Weir conjures a new tale of space peril

15 May 2021

In the latest sci-fi novel from The Martian author, Andy Weir, an unlikely duo battle to avert the decline of our sun (and the collapse of life on Earth)

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