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In 2018, science needs its own version of the #MeToo campaign

Humans

In 2018, science needs its own version of the #MeToo campaign

For science to attract the women it still badly needs and contribute to thinking through today’s tough issues, it must first call out the sexism at its heart

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Space

Parallel universes could solve a big problem with black holes

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Technology

New blues: The quest to make the world’s rarest colour

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Technology

2018 preview: Quantum computers to overtake ordinary machines

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Michel Chasles

Physics

Missives impossible: How gravity fell victim to fake news

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Earth

Bright skies at night: The riddle of the nocturnal sun

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Life

The holly hunters banking berries to save a species

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Humans

The secrets of your past that lurk inside your ears

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chocolate Santas

Life

Inside the secret chocolate garden built to avert a cocoa crisis

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Humans

Calendar synaesthesia: The people who can see time

For some the year is a C stretching out in front of them, for others it’s a hula hoop. The ways some people visualise calendars could shed light on memory itself

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Earth

’Sno substitute: The ecological cost of fake flakes on the piste

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Life

Grapes of wrath: How a New World import destroyed French wine

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Humans

How bumbling British boffins became a standing Russian joke

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Earth

England's soggy place names could predict the climate future

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