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Future Planet | Climate

Should the unborn get a say on climate?

The billions upon billions of people who inhabit the future will face the consequences of our decisions today, including on climate change (Credit: Jenny Evans/Getty Images)

Editor's Picks

Pesticides contain toxic chemicals that can have wide-ranging effects on human's sensory organs and nervous system (Credit: Manjunath Kiran / Getty Images)

Sensory Overload

How pesticides impair our senses

By Claudia Lee

A Centrosaurus skeleton on display at the Tyrell Museum, Canada (Credit: Alamy)

Rethinking Dinosaurs

The 77-million-year-old cancers

By Jocelyn Timperley

Aftershocks pose an ongoing risk to those who survive the initial earthquake and rescue workers as they try to pull people from unstable rubble (Credit: Bakr Alkasem/Getty Images)

Why geologists didn't see quakes coming

By Richard Gray

Although the Human Genome Project was "completed" in 2003, large sections of human DNA still remained unread (Credit: Science Photo Library/Getty Images)

Beyond the Genome

The push to finish the human genome

By Michael Marshall

The giant squid had been photographed, but it proved extremely hard to film – until oceanographer Edith Wedder devised a new way to seek it out (Credit: Emmanuel Lafont)

The search for the last ocean giants

By Martha Henriques

Family Tree

The Montessori method aims to increase autonomy and self-confidence in children (Credit: BSIP/Getty Images)

The world's most influential school?

By David Robson and Alessia Franco

Milestones were developed as a tool to track children's early development, but many parents now celebrate them in their own right (Credit: Getty Images)

Should parents care about 'milestones'?

By Amanda Ruggeri

There have been more cases of certain infectious diseases in children this year than expected (Credit: Getty Images)

The diseases soaring post-lockdown

By Chris Baraniuk

A portrait of Sue Nelson as a child (Credit: Sue Nelson)

Autism: Understanding my habits

By Sue Nelson

Virus

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How one virus can block another

Aircraft

2

What it takes to build a balloon for 100,000ft

History

3

The mysterious doodles hidden in a 1,300-year-old book

21st Century Gardening

4

Did Philip II bring invasive fish to Spain?

Inner Space

5

How undersea cables may affect marine life

Technology

6

Why fabric fraud is so easy to hide

How To Think About X

7

Why the world feels so unstable right now

Rethinking Dinosaurs

8

The mystery of North America's missing eastern dinosaurs

Future Planet

9

The enormous heat pumps warming cities