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Maize or sweetcorn

Environment

Rice and maize yields boosted up to 10 per cent by CRISPR gene editing

It is possible to significantly boost the yield of rice and maize using CRISPR gene editing, trials in farm fields show

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Excavator and dumper truck. Aerial view of loading sand into a truck. A heavy machinery - excavator and truck are working in the sand quarry.

Environment

We are running out of sand and global demand could soar 45% by 2060

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Forest

Environment

World would be 1掳C warmer without cooling effect of tropical forests

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An artistic impression of the high-frequency retrograde (HFR) vorticity waves. These waves appear as swirling motions near the equator of the Sun. The rotation in the north is always anti-symmetric to the rotation in the southern hemisphere. These mysterious waves move in the opposite direction to the sun's rotation, which is to the right, three times faster then what is allowed by hydrodynamics alone.

Space

Strange waves in the sun are travelling far faster than they should be

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Electric car plugged in and changing on urban city street

Environment

Fix the Planet newsletter: Solving charging anxiety for electric cars

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Robot peeling a banana
Technology

Finally, a robot that can peel a banana without smushing it to bits

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Technology

Watch a robot peel a banana without crushing it into oblivion

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Diseased lung scan

Health

Drugs seem to help regenerate mouse lungs damaged by cigarette smoke

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Inside a mouse pancreatic tumour and the red bits are the Listeria bacteria delivering the tetanus to the tumour cells.

Health

Pancreatic cancer treated in mice by loading tumour cells with tetanus

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Riga, Latvia - March 05, 2022: Protest against war in Ukraine and Russia's invasion. Crowd of people with flags, signs and posters at demonstration in support of Ukraine to demand Putin to stop war.; Shutterstock ID 2132631761; purchase_order: -; job: -; client: -; other: -

Environment

Russian tanks are devastating an idyllic Ukrainian wetland wilderness

The invasion of Ukraine is first and foremost a humanitarian catastrophe, but the environmental consequences of Putin's war will also be dire, writes Graham Lawton

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Comment

We must recognise science鈥檚 unsung global pioneers to alter its future

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Health

The covid-19 pandemic isn’t over 鈥� and it won’t end any time soon

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Space

What are odd radio circles?

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Technology

Stretchy light-emitting plastic could be used in wearable screens

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