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Category: Science
Guinea confirms West Africa’s first case of deadly Marb...
Marburg, a virus similar to Ebola that causes a deadly haemorrhagic fever, has been detected in Guinea. Local health authorities a...
Insect-killing plant found by Australian highway is new...
A newly described species of wild tobacco that scientists found growing next to a truck stop in Western Australia is covered in st...
Snakes evolved venom fangs multiple times from wrinkles...
Many snake species have been able to evolve venom fangs, because they all inherited the same wrinkle-like structures inside their ...
Seemingly harmless plant is a carnivore with flowers th...
A plant that grows in bogs along the west coast of North America has been spotted using its flowers to eat insects – until now, re...
IPCC author Tamsin Edwards: 'Still possible to limit wa...
Tamsin Edwards, a lead author of the landmark IPCC report on climate change, says that some climate changes are irreversible but w...
Why Apple's crackdown on child abuse images is no easy ...
Apple will inspect photos uploaded to the cloud by iPhones in the US to detect images of child sexual abuse – a move praised by ch...
13 things we learned from the landmark IPCC climate rep...
The world’s top climate scientists have today released their first major review in eight years on the physical science of climate ...