'Super-spreader' coral could restore trashed Great Barrier Reef
28 November 2017
Most of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef may well be destroyed in the next few decades, but hubs of resilient coral could make larvae to restore it all
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Politics chat on Reddit reads like it was written by 6-year-olds
28 November 2017
You’re not imagining it: after 2016, the sophistication and civility of political discourse on sites like Reddit dropped from secondary school reading levels to barely literate
NHS turns to ethical hackers to defend it from malicious attacks
28 November 2017
The NHS is hoping that penetration tests favoured by big technology companies will keep it safe from hackers, but if they are to adopt this approach they need to change other attitudes
Madagascar's lemurs close to extinction after population crash
28 November 2017
Ring-tailed lemurs have experienced a precipitous decline over the last two decades and are now one of the 25 most endangered primates in the world
Men in the UK have the highest obesity rates in Europe
27 November 2017
As many as 27 per cent of men – and 29 per cent of women – in the UK are now obese, meaning the country has one of the worst obesity problems in Europe
Artificial embryonic stem cells tested in people for first time
27 November 2017
A type of “virgin birth” stem cell could be as powerful as embryonic stem cells but without the same ethical objections, and are being tested for Parkinson’s
What to expect if Indonesia's volcano erupts in a big way
27 November 2017
Mount Agung's last big eruption was in 1963, and a major blast could create an ash cloud that disrupts air travel for weeks, and temporarily cool the global climate as well
Mysterious gamma rays in Crab nebula traced to pulsar winds
27 November 2017
Ultra-bright flashes in the Crab nebula have baffled astronomers, but they could result from winds created by a pulsar at the heart of the gas cloud
We've found a bunch of dwarf galaxies we thought didn't exist
27 November 2017
The missing dwarf galaxies around the Milky Way have been found. Their existence means dark matter could be made of particles that are warmer than we expected
Good news: one form of air pollution may be falling in Europe
27 November 2017
Levels of nitrogen dioxide in European city air rose throughout the 2000s but seem to have reached a peak in 2010 – suggesting Europe might get cleaner air sooner than expected
