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1. Blues whales The world’s largest animal, the blue whale, has been spotted in “unprecedented numbers” in the waters around Antarctica – a sign that the critically endangered mammal could be staging ...

We can restart our computers with a simple ctrl-alt-delete, but how easy is it to do a full reset on a river? A year on from the completion of a three-year project on the National Trust’s Holnicote ...

A Swiss firm is on track to solve the conundrum of where to site industrial solar farms, by turning railways into power plants. Switzerland needs to boost solar energy output seven-fold by 2035 to ...

New test could ‘turn the tide’ on prostate cancer A new at-home saliva test could help identify prostate cancer sooner, giving doctors a better chance of treating the disease successfully. The test ...

New sickle cell drug hailed ‘lifechanging’ A new ‘lifechanging’ treatment for sickle cell disease has been approved by England’s health watchdog. Voxelotor, which is administered as a daily tablet, ...

Climate activists scored a historic win in Europe A group of Swiss women won a landmark climate justice battle in the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) this week, in a ruling that presses ...

We’re launching with a six-part series called Developing Mental Wealth, which uncovers the fascinating ways that communities are dealing with mental health issues in parts of the world where ...

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While the trees begin to shed their leaves and slip into a long slumber this autumn (here in the UK at least), we humans have no such luxury. For most of us, life continues at the same relentless pace ...

Deloitte introduced equal parental leave In a win for equality, the accounting giant Deloitte is to introduce equal parental leave for UK employees. From 2025, fathers working at the firm will get 26 ...

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