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Environment

Animals may help ecosystems store 3 times more carbon than we thought

Carbon storage calculations don’t always take into account the effects of animals – when they eat, defecate and die, they help store lots of carbon

Great Kiskadee

Life

Songs that birds ‘sing’ in their dreams translated into sound

Mind

Your genes may influence how much you enjoy listening to music

Environment

Wind turbines based on condor wings could capture more energy

Humans

Early humans spread as far north as Siberia 400,000 years ago

An e-scooter with ultrasonic sensors and collision avoidance software

Technology

Autonomous e-scooters could ride themselves back to charging points

Earth

Extreme heat in 2023 linked to drastic slump in growth of marine life

Health

Dietary changes relieve irritable bowel syndrome better than medicine

Illustration of the reward pathway in the human brain

Health

Cocaine seems to hijack brain pathways that prioritise food and water

Life

Fossil snake discovered in India may have been the largest ever

The vertebrae of Vasuki indicus, a snake that lived 47 million years ago, suggest it could have been as long as 15 metres

Space

Jupiter’s moon Io has been a volcanic inferno for billions of years

Technology

Quantum-proof encryption may not actually stop quantum hackers

Mathematics

Particles move in beautiful patterns when they have ‘spatial memory’

Humans

Ancient Maya burned their dead rulers to mark a new dynasty