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These are the worst ready-made sandwiches for the climate

Earth

These are the worst ready-made sandwiches for the climate

Producing ready-made sandwiches can generate twice as much carbon dioxide as simply making them at home, and one particular filling is egregiously bad

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Technology

Clever maths will stop hackers spying on the quantum internet

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Humans

Survey reveals extreme gender bias plagues STEM – it must change

Comment

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

Humans

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

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Space

Parallel universes could solve a big problem with black holes

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Starry Night painting

Technology

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

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quantum computing

Technology

2018 preview: Quantum computers to overtake ordinary machines

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Life

Cheep taste: The birds that adorn their nests with tat

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Humans

We are not amused: Victorian experiments not to try at home

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sloth

Life

Busy doing nothing: How sloths mastered life in the slow lane

Once defamed as slow and stupid, sloths are now recognised as masterworks of evolution – and we could all learn from their energy-saving tricks

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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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