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In the village of Tshabula, villagers search for cobalt and copper in the waste tailings dumped by the lorries of the Chinese company Commus, which extracts minerals from one of the town's largest open-cast mines.

Environment

Mining for renewable tech inflicts huge damage. Is there a solution?

Collecting the materials needed for renewable technologies is causing enormous environmental damage and could soon extend to the deep sea and even asteroids. Innovative solutions are poised to turn the crisis around

Features

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ADHD drugs reduce risk of criminal behaviour, drug abuse and accidents

News

An illustration of the production of the key signalling molecule interferon, produced by a protein complex binding to DNA

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mRNA drugs could protect against almost any kind of viral infection

News

Mandatory Credit: Photo by Blondet Eliot/ABACA/Shutterstock (15320742p) This photo taken on May 26, 2025, during a ministerial visit to Novo Nordisk factory in Chartres, France, shows medicines (injection solution and injection pen for Ozempic, Wegovy, etc...) on the production line. Illustration - Novo Nordisk Factory - Chartres, France - 26 May 2025

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We should consider testing Ozempic on healthy people

Leader

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Ozempic really could turn back the clock on your biological age

News

Vagus nerve stimulation receives US approval to treat arthritis

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Vagus nerve stimulation receives US approval to treat arthritis

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RC9MHB Rome, Italy, 05/06/2018: a street artist simulates an invisible man on the pedestrian area along tevere castello near castel sant'angelo.

Technology

How invisibility cloaks could make us disappear – at least from AI

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Social media is dead – here’s what comes next

Technology

Social media is dead – here’s what comes next

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TOPSHOT - A prong extending from the CIRA-03 remote-controlled robot prototype approaches the mouth of a volunteer to extract a throat swab sample, as part of a self-funded project to assist physicians in running tests on suspected COVID-19 coronavirus patients in a bid to limit human exposure to disease-carriers, at a private hospital in Egypt's Nile delta city of Tanta, on March 20, 2021. (Photo by Khaled DESOUKI / AFP) (Photo by KHALED DESOUKI/AFP via Getty Images)

Technology

Can amazing tech reboot healthcare? A new book explores the future

Culture

We’ve discovered a new kind of magnetism. What can we do with it?

Physics

We’ve discovered a new kind of magnetism. What can we do with it?

Researchers have found the first new type of magnet in nearly a century. Now, these strange "altermagnets" could help us build an entirely new type of computer

Features

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You don't need to take drugs like Ozempic consistently to lose weight

News

Technology

Will we ever feel comfortable with AIs taking on important tasks?

Leader

Technology

'Flashes of brilliance and frustration': I let an AI agent run my day

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The 14 best science and tech documentaries of 2025 so far

Culture

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