Despite last-minute changes, the final agreement made at COP26 still amounts to an important ratcheting up of climate ambition
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A total of 18 people have lost their lives either while in space or in preparation for a space mission, in four separate incidents. Given th
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IBM claims it has produced a 127-qubit quantum computer. This is over double the size of comparable machines made by Google and the Universi..
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An artificial intelligence can identify designer drugs that have similar effects to substances such as cocaine and heroin, but which can’t b..
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There is an ongoing debate about whether a huge "super-Earth" lurks in the far reaches of our solar system – but we may actually have observ..
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The population of botos, river dolphins found in the Brazilian Amazon, is declining due to fishing with gill nets and is predicted to fall b..
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Annual mortality rates are rising for all major tree species in Europe, which means forests will soak up less carbon and wildfire risks will..
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In the search for high-energy astronomical events like black holes colliding, the data often has glitches. You can help weed those out using..
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People who are less confident at work were rated as having better interpersonal skills, suggesting there may be upsides to impostor syndrome
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Nearly 200 countries at UN climate summit in Glasgow also commit to revisit and strengthen their 2030 emissions reductions plans next year, ..
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Before COP26, the world was on course for 2.7°C of warming – now it’s at 2.4°C, which is a significant improvement. Future summits will need..
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An analysis of 77 tropical bird species in the Amazon shows that all of them have shrunk and a third developed longer wings over the past 40..
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Severe flooding and droughts are displacing people from their homes, and attendees at the COP26 climate summit pushed for action on adaptati..
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Trapped inside a tiny diamond, there are tinier crystals of a never-before-seen mineral that makes up 5 per cent of the lower mantle
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Kamo‘oalewa, an object that orbits the sun along with Earth, is unexpectedly red, leading researchers to suspect it came from the moon
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Two huge emitters agreed to work together to limit global warming, but the agreement is largely symbolic, as is an alliance to stop extracti..
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Promising results from a psilocybin trial suggest that psychedelic therapies for depression could help some – but not all – people who don't..
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Millet farmers living 9000 years ago in what is now north-east China may have spoken a proto-Transeurasian language that gave rise to Japane..
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The discovery that some healthcare workers had pre-existing immunity to covid-19 could lead to vaccines that protect against a much wider ra
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The city, built by the son of Genghis Khan, was once thought to be about one-tenth as big as it actually was
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The very centre of the Milky Way has an unexpectedly low density of cosmic rays compared with the rest of the galaxy, which means that they ..
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Speaking at the COP26 summit, the UK's chief scientific adviser says the country must do more to change lifestyles in order to meet its clim..
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Earth observation satellites have detected leaks of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas, in the US, Algeria, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan
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A forgotten idea of Albert Einstein’s might be the saviour of cosmology, plus the great man’s (vain) quest to undermine quantum weirdness an..
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Silk has been modified through the addition of nanoparticles to reflect 95 per cent of sunlight, which means the material stays extra cool o..
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Recognising the “urgency of action” needed to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees is on the UK COP26 presidency’s wish list for the crucial ..
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We have focused on the same suspected cause of Alzheimer's for too long. Thinking of it as resulting from multiple overlapping risk factors ..
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Interstellar objects like ‘Oumuamua might pass through our solar system in such high numbers that one could have acted as a seed around whic..
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Home-grown tomato plants can get ravaged by blight, but there are easy steps you can take to prevent it, says Clare Wilson
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Away from the shiny deals and leaders' speeches, negotations are underway in Glasgow on a decision text for the outcome and key rules on cli..
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How your brain creates the feeling of being
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After NASA’s New Horizons mission flew past Pluto in 2015, it turned around and took pictures of the dwarf planet’s back, revealing its moon..
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Sponges are arguably the simplest animals and they lack a nervous system, but peculiar cells in their digestive chambers may be evolutionary..
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Emissions of ammonia can lead to tiny particles in the air that damage our health, but many countries have no policies on limiting its relea..
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Canada, the UK and US pledge to stop around $18 billion of finance a year to international fossil fuel projects, while Poland and Indonesia ..
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Baleen whales are the largest animals on Earth, and they are even hungrier than we had assumed, which has huge implications for marine ecosy..
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An analysis of 35 bat species found in Central America, Bulgaria and China shows that the landing style each species takes is related to the..
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Having to hand over your PIN to access your bank account puts you at risk of hackers, but the fact that information can't travel faster than..
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Chemicals in the silk of male nursery web spiders help them attract a mate when used as gift wrap
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A pledge to cut emissions of the powerful greenhouse gas methane by 30 per cent by 2030 has been hailed as “game-changing” by US president J
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The UK’s peatlands store vast amounts of carbon and need protecting – but is that compatible with the traditional use of peat smoke as a fla
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Electrically stimulating a region within the centre of the brain helped people with pre-existing brain implants to adapt to changing goals a..
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Researchers at the company formerly known as Facebook have developed a touch-sensitive robotic skin that could introduce a greater sense of ..
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We could slash emissions from database backups or long machine-learning tasks by waiting to run them until renewable energy makes up the lar..
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Neurons that help humans make mental maps, called place cells, have now been seen in flying birds for the first time
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The overcrowding of low Earth orbit with commercial satellites is a problem for astronomers and the satellites – and it needs urgent interna..
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The dog constellations, Canis Major and Canis Minor, seem to run along faithfully behind Orion. Here's how to find them by star-hopping from..
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As the COP26 climate summit opens in Glasgow, the UN's World Meteorological Organization says global average temperatures have been 1°C warm..
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COP26 is a climate summit hosted by the UK and Italian governments, taking place between 1 and 12 November 2021.
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