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Lithium mining looks set to reshape Bolivia's Salar de Uyuni salt flat

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Lithium mining looks set to reshape Bolivia's Salar de Uyuni salt flat

Photographer Matjaz Krivic has been charting the effects of lithium mining on locals in the world's largest salt flat in Bolivia since 2016

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The science behind fluffy pancakes and using the right raising agent

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The top 10 movies about the multiverse according to a physicist

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The top 10 movies about the multiverse according to a physicist

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Why we should all be concerned about the shortage of science teachers

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Why we should all be concerned about the shortage of science teachers

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Fire Ants Floating in Flood Water

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Fire ants form rafts that have weird properties when stretched

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AI comes up with battery design that uses 70 per cent less lithium

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Falling diamonds on black background

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It might rain diamonds on more than 1900 exoplanets across the galaxy

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Animal bones ground into an edible paste could help reduce food waste

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Martin Rees - Astronomer Royal

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'This century is special': Martin Rees on the vast span of time

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Robert Moses

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Why I explored the corrupting power of tech billionaires in The Future

Naomi Alderman on the tech billionaires at the heart of her new novel The Future, the latest pick for the �鶹��ý Book Club – and the 1974 book that inspired her

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Read an extract from The Future by Naomi Alderman

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Notoriously complex material called 'plumber's nightmare' created

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Celebrating dark skies at a festival in deepest Denmark

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Vast submerged area near Australia may once have hosted 500,000 people

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