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Life

Black squirrels may be evolving due to roadkill in cities

Grey squirrels can actually come in black morphs, which are doing well in one US city because they're less likely to become roadkill

Space

Medicines made in space set to touch down in Australian outback

Humans

When did people start building houses with corners?

Life

Big animals have higher cancer risk – but also evolved better defences

Humans

Ancient hunters may have used throwing spears 300,000 years ago

Environment

Deep-sea life is still recovering from mining activity 40 years ago

Space

Intuitive Machines’ lunar lander Athena set to blast off to the moon

Humans

22,000-year-old tracks are earliest evidence of transport vehicles

Jupiter thunderstorm

Space

Huge thunderstorm on Jupiter captured in best detail ever seen

Life

Dogs seem to have a strong preference for yellow things

When offered a choice of bowls, free-ranging dogs in India tend to approach a yellow one much more than blue or grey

Basalt, biochar and compost, this farm is a carbon-capture testbed

Do world record snowflakes observed in 1887 stand up to science?

Chemistry

Hair conditioner made from wood is black and smelly, but eco-friendly

Environment

How one farm is testing multiple carbon-capture tricks all at once