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KUNMING, CHINA - SEPTEMBER 30: A sign reading 'COP15' is set outside the Dianchi International Convention and Exhibition Center to welcome the upcoming 15th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP15) on September 30, 2021 in Kunming, Yunnan Province of China. (Photo by Yang Zheng/VCG via Getty Images)

Life

China must lead by example to make the 2022 biodiversity talks succeed

To inspire other countries at the 2022 UN Biodiversity Conference, China will need to be seen as part of the solution rather than part of the problem, but has a surprising good news story to tell, says Graham Lawton

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Biologist E.O. Wilson with models of his life’s greatest subject, ants.

Life

E. O. Wilson: Extraordinary scholar who warned of biodiversity crisis

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In this pivotal year, rich nations failed woefully on climate justice

Environment

In this pivotal year, rich nations failed woefully on climate justice

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My encounter with a different and deeply mysterious kind of corona

Space

My encounter with a different and deeply mysterious kind of corona

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The major science-fiction films that get botany spectacularly wrong

Life

The major science-fiction films that get botany spectacularly wrong

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2021 was the year cryptocurrencies went completely off the rails

Technology

2021 was the year cryptocurrencies went completely off the rails

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Health

Will New Zealand's smoking ban plan work if it ignores vaping?

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Lessons from the covid-19 pandemic could help us reduce cyberbullying

Humans

Lessons from the covid-19 pandemic could help us reduce cyberbullying

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Thousands of people march though Central London, UK, on Earth Day on 22 April 2017 to protest against what they see as a threat to experts, evidence and investment in science. Protesters assembled at the Science Museum and marched to Parliament Square. The march, a worldwide event, supports science and evidence-based research and was organized in opposition to Donald Trump's environmental and energy policies. (Photo by Jay Shaw Baker/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Humans

We’ll never understand the universe while we’re drowning in admin

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Plastic food packaging gets a bad rap, but does it always deserve it?

Environment

Plastic food packaging gets a bad rap, but does it always deserve it?

When you look at the research evidence, it soon becomes clear that calls to ban all plastic wrap on fresh fruit and veg could do more harm than good

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Technology

Our global agreement on AI could reduce bias and surveillance

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Humans

Why maths should move on from the ancient Greeks

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Technology

Tech companies don’t get science fiction – and that's deeply troubling

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Environment

COP26 could never be a true success without delivering climate justice

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