Light pollution is set to double between now and 2050
22 November 2017
The first global “light census” shows that the area affected by artificial lighting is growing by 2.2 per cent every year, posing risks to wildlife and human health
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Watch this soft robot squeeze a damaged heart to keep it pumping
22 November 2017
Putting a squishy robot around the diseased chamber of a heart helps it pump while you wait for a new one - and could even rehabilitate it so you don't need one
Another psychedelic revolution, but this time it's different
22 November 2017
After years battling arduous laws and red tape, psychedelic therapy research is enjoying new found freedoms. The onus is now on scientists to prove it really works
How do you link the world's blockchains? With another blockchain
22 November 2017
Thousands of blockchain projects have failed because different blockchains can’t share data – now the makers of a meta-blockchain think they can restart the blockchain revolution
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22 November 2017
Black holes colliding, EU and Brexit, ivory bans and more
Private mission may get us back to Enceladus sooner than NASA
22 November 2017
Russian billionaire Yuri Milner is considering privately funding a mission to Enceladus, one of the prime places to search for life in our solar system
Austerity cuts to NHS blamed for 120,000 excess deaths
22 November 2017
Excess deaths between 2010 and 2017 correlated most closely with a lack of nurses in care homes and cuts to community nursing
Making your brain cells longer could help ward off Alzheimer’s
22 November 2017
People who die with plaques and tangles in their brain but no signs of dementia may have changed the shape of connections between neurons to withstand the disease
Keystone XL oil pipeline will go ahead despite last week's spill
21 November 2017
Last week the Keystone pipeline spilled 5,000 barrels of oil. This week Nebraska decided to allow the Keystone XL extension to be built right through the state
Latest climate talks actually made progress despite US obstinacy
21 November 2017
While the US tried to promote “clean coal” at the COP23 Bonn climate meeting, other countries called for the dirty fossil fuel to be rapidly phased out
