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The Arc of Oblivion review: Offbeat film about preserving our world

[ad_1] Film-maker Werner Herzog sits in the ark built for Ian Cheney’s film Wicked Delicate Films The Arc of OblivionIan CheneySandbox Films, in some US cinemas

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Battery breakthrough lets electric cars run longer in extreme cold

[ad_1] During cold weather, electric car batteries take longer to charge Jochen Tack/Alamy A boost in battery chemistry could enable electric vehicles to run longer

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Bad therapy review: Is mental health industry fuelling youth crisis?

[ad_1] “Gentle parenting” may be creating the very problems it is aiming to prevent Thomas Barwick/Getty Images Bad TherapyAbigail Shrier (Swift Press) MUCH has been written about rising

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Analysis of cats during a cat show reveals they mostly lazed around

[ad_1] Intentional cattiness When cats are forced to endure a crush of mass attention from an adoring public, do they continue to behave in their

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The art of olfaction should take its place alongside other art forms

[ad_1] Smell has unrivalled emotional power. As such, the art of olfaction is rightfully being included in a new multisensory performance, says perfumer Mathilde Laurent

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Persistent pain after a UTI may be due to an overgrowth of nerve cells

[ad_1] Urinary tract infections frequently cause people to need to urinate more often than usual SimpleImages/Getty Images Pain that persists even after a urinary tract

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AI could help replicate smells in danger of being lost to history

[ad_1] Some scents are at risk of vanishing forever. Can AI replicate them? blickwinkel/Alamy Artificial intelligence can whip up the formula to recreate a perfume

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Fear of predators may have helped us conceptualise the idea of zero

[ad_1] Zeros are critical to mathematics, astronomy and engineering Carol Yepes / Getty The human brain may have learned to comprehend the figure zero and

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Why space dust is key to everything from star birth to life on Earth

[ad_1] Illustration of a brown dwarf surrounded by a swirling disc of planet-building dust NASA/JPL-Caltech The following is an extract from our monthly Launchpad newsletter,

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NASA workers paint iconic logo onto Artemis II rocket boosters

[ad_1] ART and science merge to spectacular effect in these photos, recently released by NASA. The images amp up anticipation for the upcoming Artemis II