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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

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

An Argentinian submarine has vanished - here's how to find it

21 November 2017

All signs of it have been dead ends, but now the hunt is on – but the crew's oxygen supplies will only stretch to the end of this week

Russia confirms 'extremely high' radiation levels in toxic cloud

21 November 2017

Earlier this month, France's nuclear safety agency said it had recorded radioactivity in the area near the Ural Mountains - and Russia has now verified the readings

Nothing you can do stops this code from watching you online

20 November 2017

Code originally written to optimise websites bypasses https and incognito browsing to harvest and share everything you type online, from passwords to sensitive medical data

Your music tastes can be changed by using magnets on your brain

20 November 2017

Around three minutes of brain stimulation is all it takes to change people’s love of music, and even how much money they’re willing to spend on it

Spongy clay might create huge water deposits deep inside Earth

20 November 2017

We might finally know how ocean-sized deposits of water hundreds of kilometres below Earth's surface are getting there: a spongy sort of clay that is bringing it underground