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whaling history

Earth

Whale tales: The real-life Moby Dicks

Meticulously kept logbooks from 19th-century US whaling ships hold clues that could help us save what they once hunted

Features

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Technology

See inside a condom factory and what it takes to keep sex safe

Regulars

Lightbulb made of modified <em>E. coli</em> fuses biology and electronics

Life

Lightbulb made of modified E. coli fuses biology and electronics

News

Climate campaigners should have the right to sue governments

Earth

Climate campaigners should have the right to sue governments

Analysis

Dead vaquita in net

Life

Last-ditch effort to save the world’s smallest porpoise agreed

News

Chimps and bonobos interbred and exchanged genes

Life

Chimps and bonobos interbred and exchanged genes

News

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Male contraceptive injection works – but side effects halt trial

News

UK must face reality on climate impact of new Heathrow runway

Earth

UK must face reality on climate impact of new Heathrow runway

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A robot floats in a small tank of water with the aid of four polystyrene balls on arm-like features

Technology

Soft robot with a mouth and gut can forage for its own food

News

cars

Technology

How to save ourselves from the invisible gas choking us to death

Cities are battling to meet legal standards for air pollution, but even that isn't enough to make air safe, says Michael Le Page

Insight

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HIV jumped to the US in 1970 - 10 years before it was spotted

News

Technology

Energy-generating floorboard lights up 35 LEDs with one footstep

News

Earth

Iceland drills hottest hole to tap into energy of molten magma

News

Technology

E-paper display runs on office lights and never needs charging

News

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