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Batte Shankar

Environment

How antibiotic resistance is driven by pharmaceutical pollution

Factories in India making cheap antibiotics for the world are dumping their waste, with grim consequences for people living nearby – and global health too

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Mind

The parenting myth: How kids are raised matters less than you think

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Humans

Does population genetics have a racism problem, even today?

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Environment

The world’s supply of rubber is in jeopardy. Can we find new sources?

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Space

Elon Musk’s SpaceX or a superpower: Who’ll win the new space race?

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Earth

Zombieland: The vast world of hidden microbes miles beneath your feet

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Technology

True AI creativity is coming and will reveal the minds of machines

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Space

Fast radio bursts: We’re finally decoding messages from deep space

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Life

Blood amber: The exquisite trove of fossils fuelling war in Myanmar

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Space

The race to build a space internet available to anyone, anywhere

Tech billionaires are building a wireless, orbiting internet accessible in even the deepest jungle. The first satellites are already up - but do we really want it?

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Humans

The origins of language discovered in music, mime and mimicry

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Technology

The truth about the QWERTY keyboard

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Technology

Machine mind hack: The new threat that could scupper the AI revolution

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Humans

Oldest woman ever or impostor? The controversial case of Calment

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