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The new word for 'dirty sunset'

Sunset (Credit: Getty Images)

Editor's Picks

A 13th Century depiction of a "leper house" (Credit: Getty Images)

Why is leprosy still with us?

By Kamala Thiagarajan

Many ski resorts are rapidly trying to adapt to climate change, while envisaging what their future looks like in a warming world (Credit: Alamy)

Are ski trips coming to an end?

By Isabelle Gerretsen

If all animals were the same size, it would create some surprising problems for life on our planet (Credit: BBC)

When insects were as big as birds

By William Park

We can alter composition of the microbes in our stomach through the food we eat (Credit: Getty Images)

Microbes and Me

The bacteria controlling your brain

By Miriam Frankel and Matt Warren

If Semeru volcano in Indonesia produced a significant eruption, the disruption could be global (Credit: Alamy)

How one volcano could make global chaos

By Tom Ough

Family Tree

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

Dirt is teaming with friendly microorganisms that can train the immune system and build resilience to a range of illnesses, research shows (Credit: Getty Images)

The benefits of learning to love mud

By Alessia Franco and David Robson

Rethinking Dinosaurs

1

The bitter dinosaur feud at the heart of palaeontology

Appetite for Change

2

How to make fruit and vegetables last longer

Animal

3

How extinct animals could be brought back from the dead

Animal

4

How donkeys changed the course of human history

Burning Questions

5

What will China's population drop mean for the world?

Immune Response

6

The covert winter wave of Covid-19

Psychology

7

Why some people can't tell left from right

Sensory Overload

8

The pollution causing harmful algal blooms

Future Planet

9

How far can vertical farming go?