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fungus

Health

Killer fungi: The health threat that’s creeping up on us

They kill more people than malaria, and the death toll is set to rise. But we are only just starting to understand the devious ways fungi can infect us

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Emmanuel de Merode

Environment

We risk our lives daily to safeguard Virunga National Park

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Chimneys of iron hydroxide (left) and iron sulphide (right) precipitate out of solution when alkaline fluids feed into these mimics of early Earth oceans

Earth

Genesis in a jar: How chemical gardens may lead us to alien life

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Environment

Ocean worlds: Searching for life in the solar system’s seas

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Rwanda

Humans

Does science undermine human rights?

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Blackhole a/w

Space

Have black holes hurled half the universe into the wilderness?

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Sheldon and Cole

Environment

Enter an ecologist’s playground with the birdman of Wytham Woods

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Health

Miracle meal or rotten swindle? The truth about superfoods

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Chia seeds

Health

Superfoods on trial: How can we know if they work?

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ocean

Earth

Vast undersea eruption revealed by wiring up a sea-floor volcano

Seventy per cent of volcanic activity goes on underwater. Now we’ve wrapped one Pacific volcano in cables to find out what makes it tick

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Earth

How robot swarms are learning to find what we lose at sea

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Earth

Are we ready for the gold rush on the sea floor?

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Physics

How lasers found gravitational waves – and could hunt for aliens

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Humans

You are junk: Why it’s not your genes that make you human

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