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Space

Astronauts could hitch a ride on asteroids to get to Venus or Mars

Asteroids that regularly fly between Earth, Venus and Mars could provide radiation shielding for human missions to explore neighbouring planets

Health

One course of antibiotics can change your gut microbiome for years

Technology

AI helps driverless cars predict how unseen pedestrians may move

Solar panels on the North Barren Mountain in Zhangjiakou, Hebei province, China

Environment

Clean energy rollout means China’s emissions may have peaked

Physics

Quantum ‘Schrödinger’s cat’ survives for a stunning 23 minutes

Health

Flu viruses have evolved proteins that let them break through mucus

Environment

The world is falling far short of its goal to halt biodiversity loss

Mind

Meditation seems to improve our empathy for strangers

A protein from a single-celled organism called Haloferax volcanii

Life

Weird microbes could help rewrite the origin of multicellular life

Humans

Stone Age network reveals ancient Paris was an artisanal trading hub

Ancient stone goods found across France may have been made by skilled craftspeople in what is now Paris, who traded along vast networks

Technology

AI models fall for the same scams that we do

Space

NASA is developing a Mars helicopter that could land itself from orbit

Humans

DNA helps match ‘Well Man’ skeleton to 800-year-old Norwegian saga

Health

This surprisingly creative trick helps children eat more fruit and veg