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My trip to meet the scientists trying to refreeze the Arctic | Environment

Speeding across rapidly melting Arctic ice on a snowmobile gave me a vivid feel for its beauty and fragility. The brilliant white landscape gleamed...

Solstice-aligned 5,000-year-old monument ‘once in a lifetime find’, say archaeologists | Stonehenge

A 5,000-year-old monument that was aligned with the summer and winter solstices and may have served as a prototype for the later solar alignment...

Goats can find food by following a human voice, study finds | Animal behaviour

When it comes to following human cues, it seems the greatest of all time might actually be the goat.Researchers have discovered that, like young...

Bezos’s Blue Origin postpones second rocket launch over poor weather | Blue Origin

Blue Origin, the space company owned by billionaire Jeff Bezos, was forced on Sunday to postpone the anticipated launch of its New Glenn rocket...

Investors’ ‘dumb transhumanist ideas’ setting back neurotech progress, say experts | Neuroscience

It has been an excellent year for neurotech, if you ignore the people funding it. In August, a tiny brain implant successfully decoded the...

UK red kites bring Spanish cousins back from the brink

Katharine Da CostaSouth of EnglandMore than 120 British-born red kite chicks have been released in south-west SpainA British red kite emerges from an aviary...

‘They treat men like vending machines’: Inside the hidden world of social media sperm selling | Sperm donation

A man going by the name “Rod Kissme” claims to have “very strong sperm”. It may seem like an eccentric boast for a Facebook...

Social media misinformation driving men to NHS for unneeded testosterone therapy | Men’s health

Social media misinformation is driving men to NHS clinics in search of testosterone therapy they don’t need, adding pressure to already stretched waiting lists,...

DNA pioneer James Watson dies at 97

Nobel Prize-winning American scientist James Watson has died aged 97. His co-discovery of the structure of DNA opened the door to help explain how...

Expert tells farmers to prepare for the worst as virus spreads

Malcolm PriorBBC News rural affairs producerPA MediaBird flu outbreaks across UK farms has led to a mandatory housing order being brought inThe bird flu...

Universe expansion may be slowing, not accelerating, study suggests | Astronomy

Astronomers have cast doubt on a Nobel prize-winning theory that the expansion of the universe is accelerating, suggesting that instead it may be slowing...

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