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Bird specimen at NHM Tring
Life

Auks, Darwin’s finches and a mummified falcon: Inside NHM bird archive

The NHM Tring archive houses over 1 million bird specimens, including rare and extinct species such as Darwin's finches, great auk eggs and mummified falcons.  We take a peek inside the vast collection

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The common spotted-orchid (Dactylorhiza fuchsii)

Life

Orchids feed their young through underground fungal connections

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Health

Food ‘addiction’ should be treated like drug abuse, claim doctors

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Humans

Nomads thrived in Greece after the collapse of the Roman Empire

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Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station

Environment

Tech firms claim nuclear will solve AI’s power needs – they’re wrong

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JBGBGA Elementary Particles series. Interplay of abstract fractal forms on the subject of nuclear physics, science and graphic design.

Chemistry

Fragile quantum entanglement may survive chaos of chemical reactions

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Young woman listening to music in headphones while walking in a city

Technology

AI noise-cancelling headphones let you focus on just one voice

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A subdural hematoma, where blood collects between the skull and the surface of the brain, which can occur after a head injury

Health

Some brain injury patients would recover if life support weren’t ended

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https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-024-01379-7 The Red Pyramid at the Dahshur necropolis, constructed during the Fourth Dynasty.

Humans

A lost branch of the river Nile flowed past the pyramids of Egypt

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Life

Genetic mutation gives cats a ‘salty liquorice’ coat colour

Researchers have discovered the gene variant responsible for a distinctive colour pattern seen in cats in Finland, named salmiak after a variety of liquorice

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Environment

Virtual power plants could ease growing strain on US electric grid

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Technology

Surgeons can use AI chatbot to tell robots to help with suturing

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Space

Einstein was right about the way matter plunges into black holes

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Technology

Cameras inspired by insect eyes could give robots a wider view

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