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3d rendered medically accurate illustration of amino acids

Life

Life’s vital chemistry may have begun in hot, cracked rock

Amino acids and other molecules important to the origin of life can be enriched within networks of rocky fractures, which would have been common on the early Earth

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coronal mass ejection from sun
Space

Why we study the sun’s corona during a total solar eclipse

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Quantum computer chip

Technology

Microsoft and Quantinuum’s quantum computer may be most reliable yet

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Space

Laser-powered licence plates could help avoid satellite collisions

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Life

Snakes show signs of self-recognition in a smell-based ‘mirror test’

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Mind

Babies recognise spoken nursery rhymes they heard in the uterus

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Technology

Showing AI just 1000 extra images reduced AI-generated stereotypes

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Artist's impression of a super-Earth

Space

Planet caught in a gravitational ‘tidal storm’ is so hot that it glows

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Environment

I went hunting for a zombie fungus worth more than its weight in gold

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Health

Therapy that turns lymph nodes into livers gets first human trial

An experimental therapy that grows miniature livers inside a person’s lymph nodes has been used in a human for the first time, but it will be months before we know if it fully replaces their liver function

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Space

Astronomers have found what may be the smallest galaxy ever

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Health

Bird flu confirmed in person who had contact with infected dairy cows

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Technology

‘Yell at your robot’ technique teaches robots household chores

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Space

How solar eclipses have been revealing cosmic secrets for centuries

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