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When you look at the research evidence, it soon becomes clear that calls to ban all plastic wrap on fresh fruit and veg could do more harm than good

The decline of coal cratered crucial mercury emissions market

Humans and AI working together can reveal new areas of mathematics where data sets are too large to be comprehended by mathematicians

A set of 3.7-million-year-old footprints were initially thought to have been left by a bear walking upright, but have now been reinterpreted as the prints of an unidentified hominin that walked a little bit like a modern catwalk fashion model

Stegouros elengassen, unearthed in Chile, had a strange flattened tail that looked like a fern frond – a feature never seen before in an ankylosaur dinosaur

Methane is an underappreciated but potent greenhouse gas. How we deal with it will have a massive impact on averting the worst consequences of climate change

Download the puzzles from the December print issue of Chemistry World

Probe set to launch in 2029 may be able to establish whether life ever existed there and answer the phosphine question

Reinhard Hüttl, former national academy president who led the German Research Centre for Geosciences, has been punished by a district court

Reanalysis of 3.6-million-year-old footprints suggest a second kind of hominin walked in Lucy’s neighborhood

Horses kick and stamp on rocks to keep their hooves in good shape, and archaeologists have now realised this can result in a collection of sharp stones that looks like the work of an ancient human toolmaker

Readers discuss the environment and greener fuels, and speculate on chemistry’s role in the first world war

Free access to Covid-19 data has shown that the dream of open science can be achieved, director-general says

The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy has refused a freedom of information request that would allow independent scrutiny of the measures in its flagship green plan.

Mutations could have accumulated in a chronically infected patient, an overlooked human population, or an animal reservoir

A unique experiment in a Canadian lake has found that the timing of when ice forms can have a big impact on the organisms that live in it the following year

Foot design provides powerful, quick-action grip

A species of dolphin that hunts prey living 600 metres below the surface spins its body as it dives so it can drill down through the water rapidly

The Haast’s eagle had a beak and talons suited for capturing live prey, but its skull was adapted for ripping out organs

Gene-edited foods may one day be sold in UK shops, but ethicists warn that using the technology in livestock may exacerbate animal welfare issues if, for example, it leads to the creation of disease-resistant animals that can be housed together more densely

With the help of materials advances, scientists in California and Massachusetts continue to creep toward fusion reactions that produce more energy than they take in

Mimicking physiological conditions helps researchers find metal binders