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Train cars at terminal loaded with coal

Environment

Even rail trucks full of coal look beautiful in a J Henry Fair photo

Environmental activist and photographer J Henry Fair took this mesmerising photograph of the Lambert's Point coal terminal in Virginia from a plane, to reveal its inner workings

Little cute girl on kitchen is taking chocolate cookie from table.

Chemistry

The science behind baking the perfect chocolate chip cookie

Urgent inquiry into whereabouts of Robinson Crusoe’s insect companions

The late Triassic period circa 215 million years ago, featuring the large prosauropod Plateosaurus and the early dinosaur predator Ceolophysis

Earth was a hothouse 201 million years ago. How did it recover?

HDTNNH Crab-eating macaca in Thailand ; specie Macaca fascicularis family of Cercopithecidae

Can all animals get drunk? What enables this in those that can?

Woman hand holding glass jar of honey

Why does honey stop dripping when there is still some left? (part 2)

Pink flowering pelargonium turning red.

This week鈥檚 new questions

Tom Gauld: ‘If that’s Cern, I’m not here’

Twisteddoodles on what’s new in science

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Humans

These ancient sand drawings could be a fifth type of palaeoart

Was this perfect circle with a central depression drawn by our ancestors in the sand, around 136,000 years ago? Palaeontologist Charles Helm certainly thinks so

Which is the more efficient way to cool my car, A/C or the windows?

Why do cats wash themselves, while dogs don鈥檛? (continued)

When was the first sunrise on Earth? (continued)

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