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MARSEILLE, FRANCE - 2021/07/10: Protesters set a sphere representing Earth on fire during the demonstration. Members of the Extinction Rebellion group, supported by a few Yellow Vests (Gilets Jaunes in french), gathered in the Vieux-Port of Marseille to raise awareness on the dangers threatening the planet Earth. (Photo by Gerard Bottino/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

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We’ve hit a climate tipping point, but leaders seem unlikely to act

A report on the state of the climate has concluded coral reefs are on a knife-edge, even as the world shifts away from making good on net zero

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Society

There is a major psychological flaw in how society punishes people

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Humans

Who were the first humans to reach the British Isles?

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Technology

What makes a quantum computer good?

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Health

Why not all ultra-processed foods are bad for you

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Crescent moon rise at dawn with passing passenger jet

Environment

How pie-in-the-sky conspiracies distract from climate dangers

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Commercial health tests promise peace of mind, but do they deliver?

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Space

Is the universe really one big black hole?

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Why abandoning psychedelic research in the 1970s was a blow to science

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Space

Why ‘beauty factories’ could solve two massive cosmological mysteries

Facilities that make particles called B mesons may seem obscure, but they could help explain why there is more matter than antimatter and what dark matter is, says Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

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Trump’s unfounded health claims cast a long shadow

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Mathematics

The most important mathematician you鈥檝e (probably) never heard of

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Mind

Are you an introvert or extrovert? Surprisingly, the answer is neither

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Environment

What made solar power the most desirable energy source on the planet?

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