Science
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The space physicist on a mission to discover why Mercury has shrunk
As planets go, Mercury is a world of extremes – and one that doesn’t always make a great deal of…
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Can you use banana peels to fertilise your plants?
Can banana peel really help your houseplants? Shutterstock/ThamKC Back in the 1990s, the kids in my high school were convinced…
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Laser technique measures vast distances with nanometre precision
Laser beams in a physics laboratory Callum Fraser / Alamy Stock Photo A new way to gauge distance using lasers…
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Melting ice reveals millennia-old forest buried in the Rocky mountains
The uncovered whitebark pine trees Gregory Pederson A 5900-year-old whitebark pine forest has been discovered due to the melting of…
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Glyphosate-resistant weeds have evolved in the UK for the first time
Italian ryegrass is a common weed in arable crops John Cussans Weeds resistant to the herbicide glyphosate have found been…
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Gene-edited cells that evade rejection show promise in type 1 diabetes
A transmission electron micrograph of a section through pancreas tissue, showing cells that produce insulin STEVE GSCHMEISSNER/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/Alamy The…
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Tomato plants are covered in tiny anti-pest booby traps
The hairs on tomato plants are actually tiny pest traps Jalaal Research Group/University of Amsterdam For hungry insects, walking along…
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Comet that could shine as bright as Venus set to be visible from Earth
Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) captured on 31 December 2024 using a telescope in Río Hurtado, Chile Lionel Majzik A comet…
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Wild Chocolate review: Nerve-racking tale of reviving wild cocoa to make amazing chocolate
Most chocolate comes from cocoa plants taken from Central America to Ghana and Ivory Coast Issouf Sanogo/AFP via Getty Images Wild…
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World’s first 3D-printed microscope made in under 3 hours
3D-printed lenses make this microscope far less costly than traditional ones Dr Liam M. Rooney/University of Strathclyde The world’s first…
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