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Environment

Humans use a quarter of all the biomass created by plants on land

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Environment

English rivers regularly pumped full of oxygen to prevent fish deaths

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Technology

DNA-based computer can run 100 billion different programs

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Humans

Stone Age carvings of animal footprints identified by expert trackers

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Anopheles gambiae mosquito

Life

Mosquitoes dodge efforts to swat them by surfing a wave of air

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Health

Moderna's improved mRNA covid-19 vaccine is effective at lower doses

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Western Toads mating

Life

Frogs have been trying to mate with odd things for 220 million years

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A game of World

Technology

Thousands of people apparently cheat at Wordle every day

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Anti-vaccine protesters march through London in 2021

Technology

Facebook change to control covid-19 vaccine misinformation failed

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Health

MDMA therapy for PTSD expected to get US approval after latest trial

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Dead fish floating in a river in Maidenhead, UK, in June 2023, thought to have been killed by a lack of oxygen in the hot weather

Environment

Oxygen levels are dropping in rivers across the US and central Europe

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Health

Key immune cells may help protect against inflammatory bowel disease

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A meeting of NASA's UAP study team

Earth

NASA’s UFO task force has released its final report – it’s not aliens

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Herbig-Haro 211

Space

JWST has taken an astonishing image of a baby star with powerful jets

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Life

Tadpoles can change colour to blend in with their environment

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Health

Anti-ageing drugs could make more organs viable for transplants

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Health

Spinal fluid test may enable earlier diagnosis of Parkinson's disease

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Coloured diamonds from the Argyle mine in Australia

Earth

Rare Australian pink diamonds emerged when a supercontinent broke up

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Technology

Watch a cyborg cockroach navigate a maze

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Brain activity in speech production shown on a coloured functional magnetic resonance imaging (MRIf) scan

Mind

The entire brain may be involved in language, not just a few regions

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