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OceanXplorers review: James Cameron’s new ocean-life series is try-hard but effective

[ad_1] The OceanXplorer team work together to tag a Greenland shark Mario Tadinac/NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC OceanXplorersNational GeographicDisney+ With the prominent X in the middle of its title,

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N.K. Jemisin on the prescience and brilliance of Parable of the Sower

[ad_1] N.K. Jemisin Laura Hanifin There’s power in threes. The rule of three, we call it in the writing world: repeat a word or phrase

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Read an extract from Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower

[ad_1] “There’s no moon, but we can see very well. The sky is full of stars.” The Milky Way in the Atacama desert Alamy Stock

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Potato yarn may cut the fashion industry’s environmental footprint

[ad_1] Potato fibres can be made into soft balls that resemble cotton Fibe Fabric made from waste potato plants could offer a more sustainable alternative

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Never mind the health benefits, there are green reasons to stop vaping

[ad_1] I am one of millions of vapers in the UK, but growing evidence of the impact these e-cigarettes have on the environment means it

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Marmosets seem to call each other by name

[ad_1] Bhumi and Belle, a mother-daughter pair of marmosets David Omer Lab Marmosets use unique calls for other monkeys in their family groups, similar to

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Plastic vaporising process could recycle bags and bottles indefinitely

[ad_1] Polyethylene plastic bags are challenging to recycle Robert Sanders/UC Berkeley Plastic bottles and bags can be vaporised into chemical building blocks and turned into

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How a viral video made turtles the face of the ocean plastic crisis

[ad_1] Nine years ago, in August 2015, Christine Figgener posted a video of her team removing a plastic straw from the nostril of a turtle.

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Animals, Robots, Gods review: A gripping anthropological account of morality

[ad_1] The trolley problem is a classic dilemma in moral philosophy Stefan Lenz/Getty Images Animals, Robots, GodsWebb Keane (Allen Lane) No society we know of ever

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Backflipping springtails are the fastest spinners known in nature

[ad_1] Composite image of a globular springtail jumping Adrian Smith High-speed cameras have captured in vivid detail how springtails flip themselves into the air, showing