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The secret ingredient required to make a love potion isn’t eye of newt or pixie dust
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The outbreak of a new coronavirus has sent panic rippling across the world at speeds far faster than the actual virus travels. If this is somehow the first exposé you’ve encountered, “coronavirus” is the somewhat-misleading name now commonly used to refer to the 2019 novel coronavirus (or 2019-nCoV, for short), which emerged in Wuhan this
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Sexual compatibility made easy
Finding a partner as a fungus with 28,000 different sexes
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Let’s talk about (genetic) sex
“In Urdu, the only language she knew, all things, not just living things but all things—carpets, clothes, books, pens, musical instruments—had a gender. Everything was masculine or feminine, man or woman. Everything except her baby. Yes of course she knew there was a word for those like him—Hijra. Two words actually, Hijra and Kinnar. But
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Taking a look at Project Drawdown’s solutions to climate change
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The most significant scientific discoveries of the past decade
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Taking a look at Project Drawdown’s solutions to climate change
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Taking a look at Project Drawdown’s solutions to climate change
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Microplastics, explained
A quick guide to the world of microplastics
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