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A crystal jellyfish (Aequorea victoria)

Technology

Glowing biological quantum sensor could track how cells form

A quantum sensor based on a protein from bioluminescent jellyfish can be made by the body itself and it may be able to help us track how cells form or detect disease at an early stage

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Technology

Crystal-based cooling could make fridges more sustainable

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Technology

Delicate robot hands know just how hard to squeeze

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Technology

AI chatbots fail to diagnose patients by talking with them

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A quarantine control notice at Narita airport in Japan in January 2020

Health

The key events during the covid-19 pandemic

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Health

Will there be another pandemic after covid-19 and are we prepared?

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Health

Covid-19 led to a new era of vaccines that could transform medicine

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Someone with long covid having rehabilitation at the Vall d'Hebron hospital in Barcelona, Spain, in June 2020

Health

Everything we know about long covid – including how to reduce the risk

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An aerial photo taken in January 2020 shows excavators at the construction site of a new hospital being built to treat people with covid-19 in Wuhan, China

Health

The most iconic images taken during the covid-19 pandemic

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Health

Five years on, have we learned the lessons of covid-19?

Science initially struggled to match the pace of the pandemic, leaving people unclear of the best ways to stay safe from the virus, but now we know so much more – which could be essential when the next pandemic hits

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Health

The big unanswered questions about the covid-19 coronavirus

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Humans

People ate lots of foxes and wildcats 10,000 years ago

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Mind

Blinking may give your brain a micro break during cognitive tasks

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Physics

Physicists bend atoms in ‘impossible’ experiment

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