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Editor's Picks

A teenager walks backwards through snow to look at his footprints (Credit: Getty Images)

Science of Fitness

The benefits of walking backwards

By Annabel Bourne

Freetown's chief heat officer Eugenia Kargbo is charged with making her city greener and more liveable (Credit: Susan Kargbo)

The mirrors cooling Sierra Leone

By Saidu Bah

A mature cotton boll on a white background (Credit: Alamy)

An alternative to the lithium battery?

By Chris Baraniuk

The last page of a First Folio by William Shakespeare (Credit: Getty Images)

The Shakespeare play lost since 1603

By Zaria Gorvett

Creating a curtain of bubbles around the area where an offshore wind turbine is being installed can help to dampen the noise (Credit: Hydrotechnik Lübeck)

How bubble veils muffle wind farm noise

By Sophie Hardach

Earth

Illustration of a turtle and wind turbines (Credit: BBC)

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By Carl Nasman

Sea sponge farming is offering a lifeline to single mothers and divorced women in Zanzibar (Credit: Lauraclara Cosmas)

How sponges help Zanzibar women

By Kizito Makoye

The photo of Jane Goodall with infant chimp Flint challenged scientific norms and changed our view of the animal kingdom (Credit: Hugo van Lawick)

How a photo changed our view of chimps

By Anna Turns

A goat eating brush in parkland near West Sacramento, California (Credit: City of West Sacramento)

The goats fighting fires in LA

By Lucy Sherriff

Artificial intelligence

1

AI safety: How close is global regulation of artificial intelligence really?

Sustainability on a Shoestring

2

Plastic or paper? The truth about drinking straws

Earth

3

How the right to repair might change technology

Drugs

4

Psilocybin and LSD: What I learnt after experiencing 'psychedelic flashbacks'

Language

5

The harm caused by dehumanising language

Extraterrestrial life

6

Alien language: If we met extraterrestrials, could we talk to them?

Technology

7

The surprisingly subtle ways Microsoft Word has changed how we use language

Extraterrestrial life

8

Why aliens might already know that humans exist

Quick Questions

9

Why are bed bugs so difficult to deal with?