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Survey reveals extreme gender bias plagues STEM – it must change

A new snapshot of women working in science and technology in the US shows deep levels of discrimination against them. It must spark action, says Lara Williams

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In 2018, science needs its own version of the #MeToo campaign

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In 2018, science needs its own version of the #MeToo campaign

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Earth

Our lust for tastier chocolate has transformed the cocoa tree

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Festive flames: How to light a Christmas pudding

Physics

Festive flames: How to light a Christmas pudding

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Space

Parallel universes could solve a big problem with black holes

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Humans

Calendar synaesthesia: The people who can see time

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Earth

’Sno substitute: The ecological cost of fake flakes on the piste

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Life

Grapes of wrath: How a New World import destroyed French wine

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Humans

How bumbling British boffins became a standing Russian joke

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Earth

England's soggy place names could predict the climate future

Anglo-Saxon England was unusually warm and stormy. Place names coined then could hold clues to how the weather will get wetter and wilder as the climate changes

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Technology

New blues: The quest to make the world’s rarest colour

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Technology

2018 preview: Quantum computers to overtake ordinary machines

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Physics

Missives impossible: How gravity fell victim to fake news

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Earth

Bright skies at night: The riddle of the nocturnal sun

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