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smog over the city

Earth

Cutting through the smog: Is pollution getting worse?

The quality of air varies from country to country and in some places pea-soupers are becoming more frequent, in others, the air is getting ever cleaner

Features

Cutting through the smog: How air pollution shortens your life

Earth

Cutting through the smog: How air pollution shortens your life

Features

A woman wearing a face mask to filter out polluted air

Earth

Cutting through the smog: 5 ways to slash your pollution intake

Features

Cutting through the smog: What to do to fight air pollution

Earth

Cutting through the smog: What to do to fight air pollution

Features

Models of the skulls of human ancestors

Life

Ancient humans: What we know and still don’t know about them

News

A chimp holding a leaf, possibly drinking from it

Life

Chimps pass on sponge drinking trick like a family tradition

News

A diagram of a plastic bag system for keeping extremly premature infants alive

Health

Artificial womb helps premature lamb fetuses grow for 4 weeks

News

Pregnant women in swimming pool

Health

Zika outbreak may have led to fewer births in Rio de Janeiro

News

A replica of the skull of Homo naledi

Life

Mystery human species Homo naledi had tiny but advanced brain

News

Serena Williams

Health

How pregnancy could affect an elite athlete like Serena Williams

Williams was 8 weeks pregnant at the Australian Open. Some theories suggest early pregnancy boosts athletic performance, but there isn’t much evidence

News

Life

Drone spots humpback whales and orcas moving in on cloud of fish

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Earth

It’s not too late to save Great Barrier Reef from politicians

Analysis

Life

Make like a leaf: How copying photosynthesis can change society

Features

Life

Why the "bisexuality hormone" study is not as simple as it seems

Analysis

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