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$KRASNOYARSK TERRITORY, RUSSIA - APRIL 17, 2021: An aerial view of the village of Nosok, Taymyrsky Dolgano-Nenetsky District. It is also the location of the Zarya Taimyra [Taymyr Dawn] state reindeer farming enterprise. Alexander Ryumin/TASS (Photo by Alexander Ryumin\TASS via Getty Images)$

A collaborative approach is needed to avoid the next pandemic

16 February 2022

If there is one lesson to be learned from the covid-19 pandemic, it is that having medical and technological solutions isn't enough – we also have to overcome social challenges

Let’s hear it for the space Cinderellas – Earth-observing satellites

16 February 2022

We celebrate probes that look out at the universe, but rarely give a thought to the army of craft that peer down at our planet and make our lives better, says Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

It is only human to treat the metaverse with scepticism – here’s why

16 February 2022

Meta and Microsoft's new virtual reality projects have been met with suspicion by many, but history has shown that people are often right to be wary of technological change, says James Ball

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The race is on to tackle climate change by pulling carbon from the air

16 February 2022

Carbon removal technologies have long been seen as an important solution to climate change, but it is only now that these ideas are becoming a reality

Facebook policy to stop vaccine misinformation only worked temporarily

15 February 2022

Between November 2020 and February 2021, Facebook introduced policies to cut down on misinformation related to covid-19 vaccines, but they only worked for about six months

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How Australia has cut child cancer deaths – and hopes to get to zero

15 February 2022

An Australian plan to eliminate childhood cancer deaths using personalised medicine will be made available to all Australian children with the condition from 2023

Folmannia orthoclada on rock in Atacama Desert, northern Chile (March 2020). This lichen contains a Trebouxia photobiont.

Lichens may take a million years to adapt to 1°C of climate warming

15 February 2022

Lichens are important for stabilising soils and providing some animals with food, but the algae within them are adapting to climate change at a rate of just 1°C every million years

Drones armed with a small microwave weapon can shoot down other drones

14 February 2022

A compact weapon that generates a beam of microwaves can knock out electronic devices without causing harm to people

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Spider webs may act as most sensitive ‘ears’ in known natural world

11 February 2022

The bridge spider (Larinioides sclopetarius) uses its web to detect the sounds made by insects flying nearby and prepare itself for a potential meal

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Cold blob in Atlantic may be slowing ice loss from Iceland’s glaciers

11 February 2022

Iceland’s glaciers are melting as a consequence of climate change, but the rate of loss has fallen in the past decade, perhaps because a blob of cold water in the Atlantic is cooling the island