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Should we mine the deep sea?
A new license for deep sea mining could change the way we harvest rare earth minerals.
Science and the causes behind Pakistan’s floods
A new report demonstrates the impact of global warming on flooding in Pakistan.
The genetics of human intelligence
A single gene mutation may have propelled a major leap in human brain development
The China Heatwave and the New Normal
The record-breaking heatwave in China and its connection to extreme weather elsewhere
Surprises from a Martian Lake Bed
The latest analysis of Nasa’s perseverance discoveries confounds scientists’ expectations
Deadly drought
The gloomy predictions for East Africa’s long running drought
Icelandic volcano erupts again
Science in the heat of Iceland's new volcanic eruption
Synthetic mouse embryos with brains and hearts
Researchers make synthetic mouse embryos with brains and beating hearts from stem cells
The first galaxies at the universe's dawn
James Webb Space Telescope expands our view of the universe ever deeper back in time
Heat waves in the Northern Hemisphere
Heat waves in the Northern Hemisphere - how and why more frequent and more extreme?