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Chelsea Whyte

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Chelsea Whyte is a senior editor at �鶹��ý. She has worked as a staff journalist at �鶹��ý since 2017, in previous roles as US Editor, senior news editor, a US reporter and as the physics and space news editor. She has a master's degree in journalism from Northwestern University.

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Space

Is it possible to turn Venus from boiling hellscape to liveable world?

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Society

The Mexican hypothesis debunked: How marijuana really came to the US

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Steve Jones at the US Botanic Garden with a bloom (Devin Dotson/US Botanic Garden)

Life

The strange plant that just might be the worst smell on the planet

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Space

Could we tweak the solar system to make Pluto a planet again?

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Illustration of the leaves and seeds of Cannabis sativa

Humans

A million years of marijuana: How cannabis became our favourite weed

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Space

Is an enormous shield the worst way to protect Earth from asteroids?

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Space

Could a gravitational wave rip apart an entire planet?

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Space

Is it possible to drill a hole straight through a planet?

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Space

Could we put out the sun with a sun-sized orb of water?

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Environment

Why the Colorado river is drying up – and what we can do about it

Features

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Humans

Flush review: Stop letting human faeces go down the toilet

Culture

Protesters gather outside the Supreme Court on 24 June in response to the court?s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade

Health

26 US states are likely to ban abortion to the fullest extent possible

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