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Environment

Climate change is fuelling the spread of viral diseases in plants

Warmer and wetter weather has been linked to higher rates of infection in an analysis of plant virus outbreaks across the world from 1984 to 2019

Space

Tonight is your best chance to see Mercury in the night sky

A composite image of the Crab Nebula features X-rays (blue and white), optical data (purple), and infrared data (pink)

Space

X-ray map of the Crab nebula reveals strange pockets of turbulence

Environment

Farmland could feed 20 billion people but it might wreck the planet

People in Cape Town, South Africa, refill water bottles at Newlands Spring in January 2018 amid the city's drought

Environment

Rich people use so much water that it is threatening the global supply

Space

What are the prospects for life on the icy moons Europa and Enceladus?

Glowing shapes

Technology

Shapes 3D printed into living worms could be future of brain implants

Technology

Underwater pendulums could calm waves and reduce coastal erosion

Environment

US reservoirs are evaporating more quickly because of climate change

Life

Broad-nosed ancient shark was one of earliest fish to smell in stereo

Fossils found in Morocco show the sensory specialisation of a 365-million-year-old shark, given the species name聽Maghriboselache mohamezanei

Health

Roots of five medical conditions shown in map of the developing brain

Life

Chimpanzees may have an adolescent growth spurt like humans

Space

A supermassive black hole is hurtling away from its home galaxy

Environment

Climate change may drive more hurricanes towards the US east coast