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Cougar or Mountain lion in the snow

Life

Cougars are changing the way they hunt so bears don’t steal their food

With more bears and wolves in Yellowstone National Park, cougars there appear to be shifting their hunting strategy to find and protect their kills

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plastic bottles

Chemistry

Plastic bottles can be recycled into energy-storing supercapacitors

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An area of Sri Lanka flooded in 2004 by a tsunami

Technology

AI can spot early signs of a tsunami from atmospheric shock waves

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2MGE43Y Supporters of the Rhodes Must Fall group, wearing protective masks against the spread of coronavirus, participate in a protest calling for the removal of a statue of Cecil Rhodes, a Victorian imperialist in southern Africa who made a fortune from mines and endowed the university's Rhodes scholarships, beneath the statue which stands on the facade of Oriel College, in Oxford, England, Tuesday, June 9, 2020. More statues of imperialist figures could be removed from Britain's streets, following the toppling of a monument to slave trader Edward Colston in the city of Bristol, the mayor of London s

Life

Is it time to do away with species names that honour odious people?

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Environment

Climate change isn’t only hammering species that live in cold places

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RDMM8C Corporate data management system or DMS as a business user privacy concept and social media connection in a 3D illustration style.

Technology

It is more vital now than ever that we reclaim our digital privacy

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Humans

The human Y chromosome has been fully sequenced for the first time

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Environment

The tropics could get so hot that all leaves on rainforest trees die

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The 14 nanometre analogue chip that could increase AI efficiency

Technology

Analogue chips can slash the energy used to run AI models

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Screengrab from India's Chandrayaan-3 moon landing

Space

India’s Chandrayaan-3 mission has landed near the moon’s south pole

ISRO, India’s national space agency, has successfully made a historic soft landing near the moon's water-rich south pole, only days after Russia’s Luna 25 crashed on the lunar surface attempting a similar mission

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Space

Chandrayaan-3 livestream: Watch India’s attempted moon landing

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Health

Cells from discarded placentas may help to treat heart attacks

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Chemistry

A map of every conceivable molecule could be possible with AI

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Health

Covid-19 antibodies may give us partial immunity to SARS and MERS

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