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Vehicles and power generators in Antarctica produce black carbon pollution that settles on the snow, causing more of it to melt in the summer

Frustrated with the Australian government’s inaction on climate change, software king Mike Cannon-Brookes is trying to buy several big coal plants so he can shut them down in favour of renewables

A 170-million-year-old pterosaur found on the Isle of Skye off the north-west coast of Scotland had a wingspan of about 2.5 metres, making it the largest known winged reptile from the Jurassic

Rats trained to leave 3.2 seconds between presses of a lever or to hold it down for this length of time seem able to judge whether they were accurate enough to have earned a reward

As meltwater trickles down through the Greenland ice sheet, it heats up – which means that some areas at the base of the ice sheet are melting 100 times faster than we thought

The legal requirement for people in England with covid-19 to self-isolate will end this Thursday but will remain part of country's guidance. Widespread free PCR and lateral flow testing will stop in April

Bacteria have been modified to produce chemicals found in paint remover and hand sanitiser from carbon dioxide in the air, meaning they have negative emissions compared with traditional industrial methods

Social media profiles with deepfake photos and AI-generated text fooled most participants in a study, even when there were obvious errors

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A survey of more than 1500 people in the US found that people who are morally opposed to abortion would help a close friend or family member seeking the procedure

A simple, cheap technology could help to boost food production and possibly allow crops to be grown in different places in order to cut down on food miles

Carbon capture and utilisation technologies, which aim to pull carbon dioxide from the air and use it for emissions-lowering processes, emit more carbon than they remove

Carbon capture and utilisation technologies, which aim to pull carbon dioxide from the air and use it for emissions-lowering processes, emit more carbon than they remove

As more money pours into cryptocurrency crimes and scams, government agencies are increasingly cracking down, as the launch of dedicated Department of Justice and FBI enforcement teams demonstrates

The remnants of a virus that plagued our mammal ancestors during the age of the dinosaurs have been found lurking in our genomes

A statistical tool borrowed from ecology suggests that there were originally 40,600 copies of stories about King Arthur and other western European heroes – but only 3648 survive

Experiments show that two species of mosquitoes change their behaviour after exposure to five common pesticides, which could make the chemicals less effective

Although people take longer to make decisions from age 20 onwards, this may not be due to a decline in the speed of information processing, a large study has found

A simple test for water pollution involving engineered strands of DNA can report levels of contamination, and this biological system can carry out logical operations like those done by computers

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