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Space

We’ve spotted a huge asteroid spinning impossibly fast

Astronomers have found a 710-metre-wide asteroid that spins once every 1.9 minutes, so fast that it should have spun itself apart

Mind

Major leap towards reanimation after death as mammal’s brain preserved

Space

Private company to land on asteroid Apophis as it flies close to Earth

Daisy Fancourt

Professor Daisy Fancourt on the life-changing power of the arts

Health

Probiotic cream that ramps up heat production could prevent frostbite

Mathematics

Mathematician wins 2026 Abel prize for solving 60-year-old mystery

Physics

Physicists create formula for how many times you can fold a crêpe

Health

How worried should you be about ultra-processed foods?

What we still get wrong about dinosaurs

Space

Fluorescent ruby-like gems have been found on Mars for the first time

The Perseverance rover has found tiny crystals that seem to be rubies or sapphires inside pebbles on Mars, where they have never been seen before

Health

Boosting the blood-brain barrier could avert brain damage in athletes

Humans

Neanderthals may have treated wounds with antibiotic sticky tar

Environment

Will war in the Middle East accelerate the clean energy transition?

Physics

The mystery of how volcanic lightning happens has been solved