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Global warming already causing crop losses of over $20 billion a year
Climate change is already having a big impact on crop yields, and the subsequent financial losses will continue to rise …
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Briefing Chat: The 30 year-legacy of a science icon – Dolly the sheep
Nature, Published online: 10 July 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02185-1Nature staff discuss the landmark moment when a ma…
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This book is essential reading before watching the new Odyssey film
Homer still matters, argues Adam Nicolson in The Mighty Dead, a great primer to Christopher Nolan's new adaptation of th…
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Alpine crossing took a heavy toll on Hannibal’s elephants and troops
Nature, Published online: 10 July 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02113-3Pachyderms would have lost substantial amounts of …
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The sneaky maths trick for solving problems without answering them
How can you have a proof without proving anything? Mathematicians found a way and, in the process, came to blows over it…
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The 5 must-watch science shows of 2026 so far
From AI with Hannah Fry to David Attenborough's early days, these are the five must-watch science documentaries of the y…
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Special relativity can warp chemical bonds – now we've seen it happen
An experiment with a charged molecule of bismuth and carbon reveals how effects from Albert Einstein’s special relativit…
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Resuscitated human retinas respond to light 10 hours after death
Perfusing donor human retinas with blood and oxygen meant they continued to respond to light for up to 10 hours after de…
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Found: the toxic killer that caused an ocean catastrophe
Nature, Published online: 09 July 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02112-4Scientists identify an alga species as the culprit…
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Graduating without a thesis: meet the people getting ‘practical’ PhDs in China
Nature, Published online: 09 July 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01242-zNature spoke to three students from China’s first …
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Mathematics of thermodynamics is being rewritten after 200 years
The laws of physics that concern heat and work could gain a firmer mathematical footing thanks to “gauge theory”, which …
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Injection halves risk of chromosome error common in older human eggs
Egg cells missing a key protein may be more likely to end up with the wrong number of chromosomes, but an mRNA injection…
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Pair of ‘super-puff’ planets are lighter than candy floss
Nature, Published online: 09 July 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02114-2Two gas giants circling the same star are among th…
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A worm that lived half a billion years ago preferred turning right
Fossils of Spriggina floundersi provide the earliest evidence of animals favouring one side of the body over the other –…
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London’s Alchemab Therapeutics secures €29.3 million as British Business Bank makes its largest life sciences investment yet
Alchemab Therapeutics, a London-based clinical-stage BioTech startup, has extended its Series A financing with €29.3 mil…
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Seeding clouds with seawater could prevent a super El Niño
A modelling study suggests marine cloud brightening could shade the eastern Pacific and reduce a global temperature spik…
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Our fertility window could be extended by making ovaries softer
A drug that softens the ovaries helped mice and rats conceive more easily at an older age, and produce more pups…
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Observation of Floquet rotational super-radiance
Nature, Published online: 08 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10725-yA Floquet regime of rotational super-radiance has …
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