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The Evenlode is a 75 kilometre-long river in the Cotswolds, England, plagued with water pollution in recent years. Aerial view of the Evenlode.

Environment

How a Cotswolds river may show the way to clean up England’s waterways

The Evenlode in Oxfordshire, UK, has been plagued by pollution, but farmers, the water industry and local volunteers are working together to clean it up

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Health

Health Check newsletter: The brain鈥檚 amazing adaptability

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People walk past daffodils in Green Park in central London on March 26, 2021. (Photo by Tolga Akmen / AFP) (Photo by TOLGA AKMEN/AFP via Getty Images)

Environment

UK’s spring flowers are blooming a month early due to climate change

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Fruit flies

Life

Learning styles in fruit flies may not be related to nature or nurture

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Life

Female baboons that had a tough infancy are less sociable as adults

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devastating coral bleaching due to global warming. These corals are dying.

Environment

Safe havens for coral reefs will disappear with 2掳C of global warming

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This data image shows the monthly average sea surface temperature for May 2015. Between 2013 and 2016, a large mass of unusually warm ocean water--nicknamed the blob--dominated the North Pacific, indicated here by red, pink, and yellow colors signifying temperatures as much as three degrees Celsius (five degrees Fahrenheit) higher than average. Data are from the NASA Multi-scale Ultra-high Resolution Sea Surface Temperature (MUR SST) Analysis product.

Environment

Extreme marine heatwaves are now normal for the world’s oceans

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Stained micrograph of a PAP smear showing normal stellate cells. A pap smear, or pap test (after the test's inventor George Papanicolaou), is a tissue specimen from a woman's cervix that is examined for abnormalities which may indicate infection or cancer.

Health

Cervical swabs could identify people at high risk of ovarian cancer

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Space

Moons might not form around rocky planets much larger than Earth

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Life

Huge genetic database includes over 9000 species of flowering plants

Public library of DNA sequences will allow botanists to track the complex evolutionary history of flowering plants in unprecedented detail

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Environment

Lightning flash measuring 768 kilometres is the longest ever recorded

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Environment

There may be 9200 more tree species in the world than we thought

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Physics

Game theory shows how people crowd on trains at rush hour

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Technology

Birthday wishes inadvertently give away private information online

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