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OSIRIS-REx Sample

Space

Asteroid Bennu carries all the ingredients for life as we know it

We knew from prior analyses that a distant asteroid sampled in 2020 carried all but one of the molecules needed to kick-start life, and researchers have just found the missing ingredient: sugar

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Soyuz-2.1 rocket booster with Soyuz MS-28 space ship

Space

What would Russia’s inability to launch crewed missions mean for ISS?

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Environment

Coral reefs have fuelled severe global warming in Earth’s past

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People practise Health-qigong

Health

We now have a greater understanding of how exercise slows cancer

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HIV infected 293T cell.

Health

Man unexpectedly cured of HIV after stem cell transplant

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Life

Cats can overcome fear of water to benefit from aquatic therapy

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Humans

Was a little-known culture in Bronze Age Turkey a major power?

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A map showing northern and southern routes that ancient humans probably took to reach what is now Australia

Humans

Ancient humans took two routes to Australia 60,000 years ago

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Technology

Why Google’s custom AI chips are shaking up the tech industry

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Health

Upheavals to the oral microbiome in pregnancy may be behind tooth loss

Dental problems often arise or get worse during pregnancy, and a new study hints that rapid changes to the oral microbiome at this time could be at least partly to blame

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Environment

Africa’s forests are now emitting more CO2 than they absorb

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Chemistry

Plastic can be programmed to have a lifespan of days, months or years

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Space

Supermassive dark matter stars may be lurking in the early universe

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Life

Origin story of domestic cats rewritten by genetic analysis

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