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Unusual earthquake activity detected at site of former North Korea nuclear facility

Study suggests nuclear testing fundamentally altered the region’s tectonic landscape, making earthquakes stronger and more frequent for years afterwards

The Independent UK · Sep 18

‘A map is never neutral’: meet the cartographers who took on centuries of western bias

Equal Earth projection, adopted by the UN last week, provides an alternative to 16th-century Mercator display

The Guardian - UK · Sep 18

How you sleep, not just how much, influences what diseases you get in later life

Getting more REM sleep is associated with a lower risk of 83 diseases including heart failure, dementia, and Parkinson’s

The Independent UK · Sep 18

Climate crisis probably weakened glacier that caused devastating Nepal-Tibet floods, first study finds

Scientists say global heating was a destabilising factor in collapse of 200,000 sq metre glacier in August

The Guardian - UK · Sep 16

Henry VIII enforcer ‘secretly saved Catholic book he was meant to destroy’

New research suggests Sir John Gage, who remained a Catholic throughout the Reformation, shielded a manuscript of Nicholas Love’s early 15th-century Mirror Of The Blessed Life Of Jesus Christ

The Independent UK · Sep 16

Women with same health conditions as men ‘less likely to be offered active treatment’

Men with heart, kidney or liver conditions more likely to be offered intervention compared with women, global analysis finds

The Guardian - UK · Sep 16

Scientists create mice with part-human brains

Researchers hope to shed light on conditions such as schizophrenia, epilepsy, cerebral palsy, intellectual disability and rare forms of dementia

The Guardian - UK · Sep 16

Australia may have had a much larger Indigenous population before Europeans arrived

Only about seven per cent of Aboriginal people survived colonisation

The Independent UK · Sep 16

Longstanding myth about ancient Greek Parthenon debunked

Researchers say there is no evidence that ancient Greeks held any knowledge of the particular visual illusions attributed to the iconic structure

The Independent UK · Sep 16

Plantwatch: The insect-eating alpine plant that proves Darwin was right

Study shows alpine plant traps and digests midges – just as the evolutionary biologist predicted back in 1875

The Guardian - UK · Sep 16