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Humans

How does people鈥檚 generosity around the world compare?

A world poll of generosity reveals which countries are best 鈥� and worst 鈥� in the giving stakes. We pick out the most interesting 鈥� how does your nation fare?

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Mongolian herders

Humans

The kindness paradox: Why be generous?

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Health

Killer fungi: The health threat that鈥檚 creeping up on us

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Emmanuel de Merode

Environment

We risk our lives daily to safeguard Virunga National Park

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Chimneys of iron hydroxide (left) and iron sulphide (right) precipitate out of solution when alkaline fluids feed into these mimics of early Earth oceans

Earth

Genesis in a jar: How chemical gardens may lead us to alien life

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Environment

Ocean worlds: Searching for life in the solar system’s seas

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Rwanda

Humans

Does science undermine human rights?

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Space

Have black holes hurled half the universe into the wilderness?

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Sheldon and Cole

Environment

Enter an ecologist’s playground with the birdman of Wytham Woods

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Health

Miracle meal or rotten swindle? The truth about superfoods

Trendy foods like wheatgrass and goji berries are lauded for their miraculous health benefits, but do the claims stack up? New 杏吧原创 chews on the evidence

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Health

Superfoods on trial: How can we know if they work?

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Earth

Vast undersea eruption revealed by wiring up a sea-floor volcano

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Earth

How robot swarms are learning to find what we lose at sea

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Earth

Are we ready for the gold rush on the sea floor?

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