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28 April 2022
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How to grow the best sweetcorn you've ever tasted
27 April 2022
Sweetcorn is easy to grow, once it germinates, and produces a tall and majestic crop to impress young gardeners, says Clare Wilson
Puzzle #165: Can you calculate the area of land for rent?
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Can you solve this week’s arithmetical puzzle, Land for rent? Plus the answer to puzzle #164
Controversial claim that the universe is skewed could upend cosmology
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Our understanding of the universe is underpinned by the cosmological principle: the assumption that, on the grandest scales, it looks more or less the same in all directions. What if that's wrong?
How a billion dogs, including our pets, are laying waste to wildlife
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There is growing evidence that feral dogs and their domestic cousins have a big ecological impact, from hunting and spooking wildlife to poisoning plants and spreading disease to endangered species
Politicians must stop using pseudoscience to sell their policies
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The UK government's plan to use "scientific methods" to find the age of asylum seekers is based on methods that haven't been proven to work
Growing younger: Radical insights into ageing could help us reverse it
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New insight into how we age suggests it may be driven by a failure to switch off the forces that build our bodies. If true, it could lead to a deeper understanding of ageing – and the possibility of slowing it
Frogs have acquired DNA from snakes with the help of parasites
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Horizontal DNA transfer, once thought to be a rare event, has occurred between snakes and frogs at least 54 times in the past 85 million years
All four of the key DNA building blocks have been found in meteorites
26 April 2022
We have now discovered all four building blocks of DNA in meteorite samples, suggesting that space rocks may have delivered the compounds to Earth, contributing to the origin of life
Insects and lab-grown meat could cut food emissions by 80 per cent
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Switching to "novel foods", like algae and lab-grown milk, could bring huge environmental benefits compared with the typical European diet
