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Read an extract from In Defence of Bread, the new posthumously published book by food scientist Professor Mike Gibney.

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New species are being discovered faster than ever before - at a rate of more than 16,000 every year, suggests a new study.

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A mystery that started with the discovery of a pinkie finger bone in Denisova Cave in the Altai Mountains of southern Siberia may finally have been cracked.

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Around 16,000 new species are described each year, but most animals and plants are listed as threatened as soon as they are ...

Four ways of ending life remain or have become legal in the eyes of at least some of the United States, notes the aut ...