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Beautiful images illustrate the dawn of modern botany

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Beautiful images illustrate the dawn of modern botany

These delicately detailed representations of plants by a founding figure of modern botany are given a new lease of life in the book Leonhart Fuchs: The New Herbal

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A worker walks under pipework in the yard at the Comprehensive Gas Treatment Unit No.3 of the Gazprom PJSC Chayandinskoye oil, gas and condensate field, a resource base for the Power of Siberia gas pipeline, in the Lensk district of the Sakha Republic, Russia, on Monday, Oct. 11, 2021. Amid record daily swings of as much as 40% in European gas prices, Russian President Vladimir Putin made a calculated intervention to cool the market last week by saying Gazprom can boost supplies to help ease shortages. Photographer: Andrey Rudakov/Bloomberg via Getty Images

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EU lays out plan to cut Russian gas imports by two-thirds in 2022

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Artistic reconstruction of Rododelphis stamatiadisi

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Fossil hints that orcas don’t have a long history of killing whales

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Keadby 2 gas power station

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Net zero: The UK is building its last big gas power plant

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Health Check newsletter: A U-turn in Caesarean policy

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Health Check newsletter: A U-turn in Caesarean policy

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Chess enthusiasts watch World Chess champion Garry Kasparov on a television monitor as he holds his head in his hands at the start of the sixth and final match 11 May 1997 against IBM's Deep Blue computer in New York. Kasparov lost this match in just 19 moves giving overall victory to Deep Blue with a score of 2.5-3.5. / AFP / STAN HONDA (Photo credit should read STAN HONDA/AFP via Getty Images)

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How to Stay Smart in a Smart World review: Why humans still trump AI

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Omega-3 supplements could reduce the number of premature births

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UK advisers urge tougher climate tests on new oil and gas projects

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An extreme example of facial asymmetry in a female Virunga mountain gorilla cranium (Tayna, individual GP.148), shown as a three-dimensional surface model with texture. This individual was not included in the sample as she was dentally immature at the time of death, but she exhibits an extreme version of the asymmetric pattern documented in this study.

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Mountain gorilla inbreeding has distorted their facial features

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Mandatory Credit: Photo by Michael Sohn/AP/Shutterstock (12817867a) Pipes at the landfall facilities of the 'Nord Stream 2' gas pipline are pictured in Lubmin, northern Germany, on Ukraine Nord Stream 2, Lubmin, Germany - 15 Feb 2022

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Germany halts Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline from Russia – what's next?

After Russia’s recognition of separatist regions in Ukraine, Germany paused the certification of a gas pipeline under the Baltic Sea. What does that mean for gas prices and climate targets?

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We have lost 90 per cent of the original copies of Medieval literature

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Oil giants accused of greenwashing for failure over energy transition

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A Blue New Deal review: A radical look at who owns the sea

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Petrov’s flu review: A surreal journey through one man’s delirium

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