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Kakhovka dam after its destruction

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Destruction of Ukraine’s Kakhovka dam left behind a toxic legacy

The 2023 breach of the Kakhovka dam drained a huge reservoir and exposed a vast area of toxic sediment, creating a debate about how best to rebuild after the Russia-Ukraine war

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NASA may have to cancel major space missions due to budget cuts

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The Maquan River, the upper section of the Yarlung Tsangpo River, which flows through the Tibetan Plateau

Humans

Ancient humans lived in an 'uninhabitable' climate 25,000 years ago

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Technology

Revealed: How the UK tech secretary uses ChatGPT for policy advice

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Mars appears light blue in this near-infrared image from the Hera spacecraft, with its moon Deimos represented by a dark mark towards the centre of the image

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Hera asteroid mission takes stunning images of Mars’s moon Deimos

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Environment

California isn't clearing forests fast enough to tame wildfires

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Quartz crystals on Mars could preserve signs of ancient life

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Health

The 13 drugs and supplements that could slow brain ageing

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NASA Webb Wows With Incredible Detail in Actively Forming Star System At the center is a thin vertical cloud known as Lynds 483 that is shaped like an hourglass with irregular edges. At lower center are two discrete bright white, tiny blobs of light that have raced away from the hidden central stars. The top lobe shows a more prominent orange U-shape. Orange bleeds into light purple, and brighter pink at its edges. Some background stars are visible through sections of this lobe. Higher up, there is an orange arc. Some brighter pink material extends to the top edges near the center. In the lower lobe, less orange is visible. More opaque light purple is in its top third, rippling out into semi-transparent blues and pinks. The lower lobe has more texture. V-shapes left and right of the lobes are darkest, and the background stars in these areas appear orange. Elsewhere, the black background of space is clearer, speckled with tiny white stars and faint orange galaxies. Shimmering ejections emitted by two actively forming stars make up Lynds 483 (L483). High-resolution near-infrared light captured by NASA?s James Webb Space Telescope shows incredible new detail and structure within these lobes. Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI

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See a shimmering hourglass-shaped star system in exquisite detail

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Humans

Ancient face bones offer clues to identity of early humans in Europe

Bone fragments from a cave in northern Spain suggest there were multiple hominin species living in western Europe around a million years ago

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Environment

Do we finally understand what caused record heat in 2023 and 2024?

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Chemistry

Metals can be squeezed into sheets just a few atoms thick

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Technology

The first operating system for quantum networks has been built

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Health

Signs of Terry Pratchett’s dementia may have been hidden in his books

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