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Future Planet | Food

Pumpkins: The overlooked superfood

Pumpkins provide a wide range of nutritional and medicinal benefits (Credit: Getty Images)

Aliens special

Artist's impression of astronaut with alien plants (Credit: Emmanuel Lafont)

Extraterrestrial life

A cosmic hunt for alien trees

By Zaria Gorvett

Alien AI may be stranger than we can imagine (Credit: Getty Images)

Extraterrestrial life

Why aliens may be weirder than we think

By Martin Rees

A view of the Moon orbiting the Earth taken from 3.9 million miles away by the Galileo spacecraft (Credit: Nasa/JSC)

Extraterrestrial life

Why aliens might know humans exist

By Jonathan O'Callaghan

Nitrogen dioxide pollution map (Credit: Getty Images)

Extraterrestrial life

Could we detect alien pollution?

By Chris Baraniuk

An illustration of some early sci-fi aliens (Credit: Emmanuel Lafont)

The weird aliens of the 19th Century

By Zaria Gorvett

Editor's picks

The Danish island of Bornholm has pledged to go zero waste, meaning no waste will be burned or landfilled by 2032 (Credit: Sophie Eastaugh)

The Danish island eliminating trash

By Sophie Eastaugh

Sail drones are studying why and how hurricanes intensify to help improve hurricane forecasting (Credit: Saildrone)

The ocean drones tracking hurricanes

By Isabelle Gerretsen and Jocelyn Timperley

Microsoft Word on a computer screen (Credit: Alamy)

How Microsoft Word has shaped language

By Victoria Woollaston

People walking through smog towards India Gate in Delhi (Credit: Getty Images)

Why we don't all breathe the same air

By Kamala Thiagarajan

Quick Questions

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Why are bed bugs so difficult to deal with?

What If...

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To avert climate disaster, what if one rogue nation dimmed the Sun?

Tree

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In search of the Old Ones: Where to find the world's longest-lived trees

Disease

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How unearthing diseases' ancient origins could help produce modern cures

Future Planet

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Can we take the 'forever' out of forever chemicals?

Eclipse

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How eclipses have shaped history

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Mar Menor: cleaning Europe's largest saltwater lagoon

Invisible Universe

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How sound is providing new clues about the Universe

Aircraft

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The robot aircraft with a nightmarish nuclear mission

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