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Environment

How are sand dunes formed and why do they even exist?

The strange, beautiful shapes that sand dunes form are a mystery. Now researchers are conducting huge desert experiments and using dune racetracks to figure it out

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Environment

Paul Ehrlich: There are too many super-consumers on the planet

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Environment

The population debate: Are there too many people on the planet?

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Technology

Deep-sea mining is making the seabed the hottest real estate on Earth

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Technology

How covid-19 has exposed a huge computing disaster in the making

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Health

How the strangeness of our dreams reveals their true purpose

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Environment

The secret weapon in the war between pet cats and wildlife

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Space

We can harness the solar wind to sail to the farthest corners of space

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Humans

How to build a fair and green economic system after covid-19

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Health

Viruses have busy social lives that we could manipulate to defeat them

The coronavirus and others are no lone wolves, they cooperate and compete with one another. Understanding these social interactions could help us fight them

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Physics

Ball lightning is so strange it might just come from another dimension

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Health

You can manage your covid-19 risk by setting your own ‘contact budget’

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Health

Your covid-19 risk: How to navigate this new world of uncertainty

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Physics

We’ve built a fourth dimension of space and we’re about to look inside

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