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Consumer insecticides are useless for fighting cockroach infestations

[ad_1] Cockroaches are a common pest LELACHANOK/Shutterstock People buying insecticide sprays to battle cockroaches are wasting their money as the insects have grown resistant to

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The crisis in our oceans shows how quickly climate chaos can strike

[ad_1] Ocean temperatures have been rising steadily for decades, with our seas having absorbed much of the excess atmospheric heat generated by our relentless burning

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Largest genome sequenced so far is 30 times bigger than a human’s

[ad_1] The South American lungfish probably has a lot of “junk” DNA Katherine Seghers/Louisiana State University There is a new record for the largest genome

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Stonehenge’s altar stone was brought all the way from Scotland

[ad_1] The altar stone lies inside Stonehenge’s two big rings of stones Gavin Hellier/roberthrding/Getty Images A study of the 6-tonne altar stone at the heart

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How climate change has pushed our oceans to the brink of catastrophe

[ad_1] This time last year, Dean Grubbs and his colleagues were celebrating a conservation success story. The star was the smalltooth sawfish, a type of

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Why the amazing Altamura Man fossil remains a mystery

[ad_1] The Altamura Man skeleton in Lamalunga cave Costantino Buzi This is an extract from Our Human Story, our newsletter about the revolution in archaeology. Sign

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How crocodiles were taught to stop eating deadly toxic cane toads

[ad_1] Freshwater crocodiles (Crocodylus johnstoni) are at risk from toxic cane toads Paul Mayall Wildlife/Alamy Wild crocodiles in Australia keep dying from eating toxic cane

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MDMA therapies hit a roadblock – what’s next?

[ad_1] Will psychedelic drugs like MDMA ever be approved for therapeutic uses? South Agency/Getty Images Roughly one year ago, thousands of people gathered in Denver,

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We keep finding water on Mars – here are all the places it might be

[ad_1] Martian water may be lurking beneath – or even above – the planet’s surface NASA/JPL/USGS Mars is not as arid as it may seem.

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Is youth mental health really worse today than it was decades ago?

[ad_1] The covid-19 lockdowns may have hit young people particularly hard Justin Paget/Getty Images Young people’s mental health “has entered a dangerous phase” and “now