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Bathing rivers, pollution

Environment

The UK’s official swimming rivers are too polluted to swim in

Just two rivers in the UK are designated as "bathing waters", and both are currently rated in poor health. With more rivers set to become bathing waters, will they actually be clean enough to use?

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LOS ANGELES, CA - NOVEMBER 03: Nicole Fahey, of Altadena, six months pregnant, receives a Pfizer vaccination booster shot from RN Veronique (cq) Vida (cq) at Eugene A. Obregon Park on Wednesday, Nov. 3, 2021 in Los Angeles, CA. The County of Los Angeles, including Supervisor Hilda L. Solis, Dr. Barbara Ferrer, Director of Public Health, and Norma Edith Garc?a-Gonz?lez, Director of Parks and Recreation, will host a media event kicking off COVID-19 vaccinations for children ages 5-11 in Los Angeles County. The COVID-19 vaccine manufactured by Pfizer and BioNTech is proposed to be given in two 10-microgram (mcg) doses administered 21 days apart. (Gary Coronado / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

Health

Covid-19 vaccines during pregnancy protect newborns from infection

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Life

Bumblebees can teach each other how to open a puzzle box

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AI brain images

Technology

AI creates pictures of what people are seeing by analysing brain scans

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Health

Drunk mice sober up twice as fast when given hormone injection

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Space

The first 3D-printed rocket is about to launch into space

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Japan's H3 rocket launch
Space

Japan’s H3 rocket self-destructs following launch failure

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Society

Money actually does buy happiness, says Nobel prize-winning economist

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Environment

UK faces rising costs for flood damage even with modest warming

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Mother with baby, among others, Lesser Dog-faced Fruit Bat (Cyneropterus brachyotis). Also called Short-nosed or Common Fruit Bat. Animals hanging in the roof. Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve, Singapore.

Life

Females are not smaller than males in most mammal species

The idea that male mammals are larger than females has persisted for more than a century, but an analysis of body mass and length in 400 mammal species shows it isn鈥檛 the norm

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Earth

Gold hydrogen: Is there a huge reserve of clean fuel in Earth’s crust?

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Space

How to understand wormholes and their weird quantum effects

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Physics

Antimatter neutrinos detected from a nuclear reactor 240 km away

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Mind

Why I鈥檓 teaching balls of human brain cells to play video games

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