Jobless young people desert sinking Pacific islands
Islands in the Pacific and Caribbean, threatened by rising sea levels, face a brain drain as up to half their citizens move away in search of work
Gene variant found that may help people live to be 100
Three Spanish centenarians have a rare gene mutation that may help clear bad cholesterol from the blood – and so reduce the risk of heart attack
US aiming to help more heroin addicts and jail fewer
With deaths from heroin overdoses in the US on the rise, policies are shifting from incarceration to preventing overdoses and reducing harm
Mammals' reptile ancestors may have hunted at night
We thought the first mammals turned nocturnal to escape dinosaur predators, but 100 million years earlier, the precursors of mammals were active at night
See all the copper from a mine in one giant ball
A hundred years of chipping away at the earth is condensed into this uncanny image of a long-abandoned South African mine
Zoologger: Cockatoos learn to make and use a tool
After a lone Goffin cockatoo figured out how to make and use a simple tool, others have learned the same trick by watching him
Beautiful but doomed: Demise of the passenger pigeon
Hubristic humans should heed the tale of the passenger pigeon's demise, recounted by three books published on the centenary of its extinction
Formula E: Roar power matters for electric racing cars
The scream of a Formula 1 engine, the growl of a luxury saloon: both evoke visceral reactions. Can electric cars do the same?
Children who skip breakfast might raise diabetes risk
If kids regularly miss out on eating breakfast, they may be more likely to develop type 2 diabetes, just as adults are
Biography of our ingenious species is full of twists
Humans innovate to dodge disaster, and we are pretty good at it, according to The Big Ratchet by Ruth DeFries – but can we do it indefinitely?
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