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The Bayesian experimental autonomous researcher (BEAR), a robotic laboratory

Technology

Toughest known structure discovered by autonomous robot lab

A robotic laboratory that can run 50 experiments a day without human supervision has discovered the most energy-absorbing structure ever recorded, claim researchers

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Space

Is an enormous shield the worst way to protect Earth from asteroids?

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Space

India’s Chandrayaan-3 moon rover swerves to avoid crater

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Space

Massive crater found on distant world far beyond Neptune

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People with dengue in hospital in Dhaka, Bangladesh, in July

Health

Why is it so difficult to make an effective vaccine against dengue?

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Humans

Ancient humans may have worn shoes more than 100,000 years ago

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Physics

Physicists create bizarre quantum Alice rings for the first time

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Life

Nearly every kakapo’s genome has been sequenced to help save them

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The Clostridium difficile bacterium can cause diarrhoea - and shorter people may be particularly at risk

Health

Your height may influence the diversity of your gut microbiome

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Physics

Maxwell’s demon imagined by physicists really exists inside our cells

Proteins in the cell membranes of most organisms act like the hypothetical “demon” imagined by James Clerk Maxwell in 1867, which was thought to break the laws of physics

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Space

JWST may have seen black holes suppressing the creation of new stars

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Health

Appetite for mind-altering substances is booming among US adults

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Life

Invasive blue crabs are poised to devastate the global clam supply

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Technology

Virus ‘nanobots’ can make harmful bacteria in food and drink glow

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