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Environment

Hiking parking costs is a great way to reduce car usage

A huge increase in parking costs in my home of York has provoked outrage. This may sound like a local problem, but reducing car use is an issue for all of us, says Graham Lawton

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Society

This is how to avoid annihilating ourselves in a nuclear war

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China's national flags flutter in front of a coal-powered power station in Datong, China's northern Shanxi province on November 3, 2021. (Photo by Noel Celis / AFP) (Photo by NOEL CELIS/AFP via Getty Images)

Environment

Why the climate crown is ready for China to take 鈥� if it wants to

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Physics

How dark energy findings may inspire a new generation of physics nerds

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Technology

When it comes to crime, you can’t algorithm your way to safety

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Health

The complexity of female sex hormones calls for more science, not less

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Life

Is the fungal science in The Last of Us going off the rails?

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Life

What if we could experience life as another species?

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Mind

Science is a Pandora’s box 鈥� but we should open it anyway

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Society

Don’t ban kids from social media; create a site that works for them

Rather than simply keeping children away from social media, we need a specially designed option for them. This is how it should look, says Michael Marshall

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Life

England has just given the thumbs up to gene-edited plants. Hooray!

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Society

Does science have a future in the US?

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Environment

We may soon be able to hold fossil fuel companies to account

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Life

Let’s remember that extraordinary claims need extraordinary evidence

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