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Mandatory Credit: Photo by Jim West/imageBROKER/Shutterstock (4549809a) Children inspect a caterpillar found in their garden which is tended by children ages 5-11 in a program called Growing Healthy Kids, as part of the Earthworks Urban Garden, which grows food for the Capuchin Soup Kitchen, Detroit, Michigan, USA VARIOUS

Life

When nature gives people the 'ick'

People living in urban environments are often alienated from the great outdoors and therefore find it scary and disgusting. This "biophobia" is on the rise, says Graham Lawton

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Editorial use only Mandatory Credit: Photo by ITV/Shutterstock (14061651br) Emmerdale - Ep 9774 & Ep 9775 Tuesday 5th September 2023 Despite their past hostility, it seems that Cain Dingle, as played by Jeff Hordley, and Caleb, as played by Will Ash, are finally headed in the right direction. Caleb makes his entry into the family official with a drink from the Dingle welly. 'Emmerdale' TV Show, Episodes Ep 9761-9778 UK - Aug 2023 Emmerdale, is a British ITV long running soap opera, known as Emmerdale Farm until 1989, set in Emmerdale, a fictional village in the Yorkshire Dales. It was created by Kevin Laffan and was first broadcast on 16 October 1972. It was originally produced by ITV Yorkshire and is still filmed in their Leeds studios.

Physics

How soap operas can help us understand special relativity

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2RHHNP6 Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director General of the World Health Organization(WHO), third from right, and Mansukh Mandaviya, Indian Minister of Health and Family Welfare and Chemicals and Fertilizers, second right, look with other delegates at pots filled with millets during the Global Conference on Traditional Medicine as part of the G20's Health Ministers' meeting in Gandhinagar, India, Thursday, Aug. 17, 2023. (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki)

Health

We need evidence about the risks and benefits of alternative medicines

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Members of SafeStreetRebel, a group of anonymous anti-car activists, place a cone on a self-driving robotaxi to disable it in San Francisco, California on July 11, 2023. Members of SafeStreetRebel, a group of anonymous anti-car activists, have been actively calling for participants to help protest the spread of robotaxis for malfunctioning and blocking traffic. (Photo by Josh Edelson / AFP) (Photo by JOSH EDELSON/AFP via Getty Images)

Technology

Our priorities are all wrong when it comes to new technologies

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2MGE43Y Supporters of the Rhodes Must Fall group, wearing protective masks against the spread of coronavirus, participate in a protest calling for the removal of a statue of Cecil Rhodes, a Victorian imperialist in southern Africa who made a fortune from mines and endowed the university's Rhodes scholarships, beneath the statue which stands on the facade of Oriel College, in Oxford, England, Tuesday, June 9, 2020. More statues of imperialist figures could be removed from Britain's streets, following the toppling of a monument to slave trader Edward Colston in the city of Bristol, the mayor of London s

Life

Is it time to do away with species names that honour odious people?

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Physics

Why Isaac Newton's laws still give physicists a lot to think about

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BEAMBN Tibetan plateau scenery en route from Shegar to Tingri, Tibet

Humans

How prehistoric people settled one of Earth’s most extreme places

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Unions strike to save the world from bad TV and movies

Technology

Unions strike to save the world from bad TV and movies

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Technology

Could Elon Musk's xAI be exactly what the world needs?

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Demonstrators march to the U.S. Capitol during the March for Science in Washington, U.S., April 22, 2017. REUTERS/Aaron P. Bernstein - RC125E31BBB0

Society

Who is researching and shaping science is more crucial than ever

It is hard to focus on getting academic work done when there is increasing hostility in the US to people of colour. This is why being awarded tenure matters, says Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

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Environment

Does oil-rich Saudi Arabia really want to mend its ways and go green?

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Mathematics

Should all mathematical proofs be checked by a computer?

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Environment

Why you should never ever mention rewilding to a Welsh hill farmer

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Physics

The massive problem of trying to fully explain what mass actually is

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