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The Porc-Epic Cave

Humans

Cave art pigments show how ancient technology changed over 4500 years

The source of ochre minerals used by Stone Age humans in an Ethiopian cave changed over a 4500-year period, although it is unclear why

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Reconstruction of an ancient marsupial ecosystem

Life

Ancient mini koala may help solve mystery of early marsupial evolution

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Nature is a quantum engineer

Physics

Why nature is the ultimate quantum engineer

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Earth

Tonga volcano unleashed underwater flows that reshaped the seafloor

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Industrial smoke stack

Technology

Electrically charged mist could help capture carbon from power plants

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Health

Human kidneys have been partially grown in pigs for the first time

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E9NWFC Dehorned white rhino (Ceratotherium simum) with calf, Mpumalanga, South Africa

Life

Huge rewilding project will release 2000 white rhinos across Africa

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Wheat harvesting in Kansas

Environment

Curiously cool summers in US Midwest linked to crop irrigation

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Space

Japan launches moon lander and X-ray space telescope on same rocket

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Space

Asteroid hit by NASA spacecraft is behaving unexpectedly

When NASA crashed its DART spacecraft into the asteroid Dimorphos, the goal was to shorten the space rock's orbit around its parent asteroid. The mission succeeded - but Dimorphos' orbit has continued to shrink and it isn't clear why

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Technology

Terminator model has living skin made from fungus

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Space

Never-before-seen space explosion is incredibly bright but fades fast

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Mind

Athletes may look bigger if they wear higher numbers on their jerseys

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Technology

Quantum batteries that charge wirelessly might never lose efficiency

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