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What we know about the stars where NASA will hunt for alien life

Scientists have analysed the stars that an upcoming NASA telescope will target in its search for biosignatures, narrowing down the candidates for those that could host potential extraterrestrial life

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Life

Watch parrots use their beaks for a newly identified form of motion

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Technology

Neuralink: What do brain implants do and why is Elon Musk making them?

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Health

Racial and ethnic disparities undermine dementia care in the US

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Life

Spider webs collect DNA that reveals the species living nearby

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Health

Could combatting loneliness extend the lives of people with obesity?

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Environment

Slight flight altitude changes could slash aviation’s climate impact

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Space

Galaxy smash-ups may explain strange light from early universe

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Technology

AI can better retain what it learns by mimicking human sleep

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Life

Orangutan calls have an intricate structure resembling human language

Calls made by male orangutans to attract females have short sequences nested inside longer sequences – a feature called recursion that was thought to be unique to human language

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Space

The Ingenuity helicopter’s Mars mission is over, but it left a legacy

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Space

JWST has taken extraordinary images of 19 nearby spiral galaxies

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Life

Strange virus-like replicators discovered in the human gut

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Health

Contaminated hormone injections may have given five people Alzheimer’s

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