Evidence points to Wuhan market as source of covid-19 outbreak
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Earth got even hotter than we thought during past 500 million years
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We’ve just doubled the number of gravitational waves we can find
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We physicists could learn a lot by stepping beyond our specialisms
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Ig Nobel prizes 2024: The unexpected science that won this year
[ad_1] Ten unexpected things were honoured at the 34th Annual Ig Nobel prizes last week, each so extremely surprising that, in the event’s long tradition,
Most effective migraine drugs revealed by review of trial data
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A Declaration on Future Generations could bring the changes we need
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Giant rats trained to sniff out illegal wildlife trade
[ad_1] African giant pouched rats proved adept at detecting four commonly trafficked products derived from endangered species including rhino horn and elephant ivory [ad_2] Source
The Art of Uncertainty review: Top statistician David Spiegelhalter on how to deal with uncertainty
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The cactus family’s surprising evolutionary journey
[ad_1] Giant tree-like cactuses called saguaros in Arizona, USA Susan E. Degginger / Alamy The following is an extract from our nature newsletter Wild Wild