Science
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Oil firms’ plans for net-zero oil extraction labelled as ‘PR spiel’
An oil drilling rig in California’s Central Valley Ashley Cooper / Alamy Fossil fuel companies are experimenting with using carbon…
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Between Two Rivers review: Exploring Mesopotamia, where the modern world began
The Great Ziggurat of Ur, in present‑day Iraq Mohammed Al ali/Alamy Between Two RiversMoudhy Al-Rashid (Hachette (UK, 20 February); W. W.…
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Competition opens to find the world’s most perplexing computer code
A 2011 entry to the International Obfuscated C Code Contest, designed to look like a manga character PGM/PPM images and…
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A whole new world of tiny beings challenges fundamental ideas of life
Theodor Diener had a problem. It was 1967, and he and a colleague had successfully isolated the infectious agent causing…
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Quail-sized feathered dinosaur may be the earliest known bird
Illustration of the Jurassic bird Baminornis zhenghensis, showing the fossilised bones ZHAO Chuang A fossil from China that’s 150 million…
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How big is a neutrino? We're finally starting to get an answer
Our estimates of the size of a neutrino span from smaller than an atomic nucleus to as large as a…
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Record-breaking neutrino spotted tearing through the Mediterranean Sea
Part of the KM3NeT neutrino detector on the seafloor KM3NeT A shockingly powerful neutrino that ripped through a new particle…
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How a moth uses an optical illusion to disguise itself as a leaf
The fruit-sucking moth bears an uncanny resemblance to a leaf Bridgette Gower A moth found in northern Australia and South-East Asia…
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Using common painkiller in pregnancy might raise ADHD risk in children
Microscopic view of paracetamol crystals Henri Koskinen/Shutterstock Children whose mothers used paracetamol, also known as acetaminophen, during pregnancy are more…
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Dancing turtles help us understand how they navigate around the world
Some turtles flap about when a magnetic field suggests they are about to be fed Goforth et al., Nature (2025)…
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