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Gender pay gap widens for UK scientists and engineers

On average, female scientists and engineers earn less than their male counterparts, and the difference is getting bigger, according to the 2019 Â鶹´«Ã½/SRG salary survey

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Environment

How do you square a passion for the ocean with deep-sea mining?

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Space

There’s so much junk in space that our satellites will soon be at risk

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Humans

Story of most murderous people of all time revealed in ancient DNA

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Humans

Is religion good or bad for humanity? Epic analysis delivers an answer

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Earth

Gaia rebooted: New version of idea explains how Earth evolved for life

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Life

Strange rise of mukbang parents who feed their kids fast food for cash

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Physics

Schrödinger’s kittens: New thought experiment breaks quantum theory

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Mind

How to make your brain adaptive enough to cope with anything

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Technology

Our wooden future: making cars, skyscrapers and even lasers from wood

Wood can now be processed into a super-material with extraordinary properties – and a wood-based, climate-saving economy is just what the planet needs

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Physics

The quantum world is infamously weird – now we might know why

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Health

Too much sunscreen? Why avoiding the sun could damage your health

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Health

Meet the super-smeller who can diagnose Parkinson’s at a sniff

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Earth

Brexit, 10,000 BC: The untold story of how Britain first left Europe

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