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Why it took just 200 years for the world’s population to increase eightfo
The UK’s birth rate is at its lowest ever – and that’s not just bad news for those who long to be grandparents. It could spell trouble for the nation’s future too
Mass extinctions and evolutionary leaps, from bacteria to Homo sapiens
Two contrasting visions of humanity’s future in space
Well, not quite – but it’s true that about 80 per cent of our ocean floor remains unexplored and uncharted. Discovering what our ocean depths look like and what life might be found there is just as ch
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Contempt for democracy and the perversion of classical liberalism
