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Millions of planets might form around supermassive black holes

Massive amounts of dust swirl around active nuclei at the centres of galaxies, and these discs could give rise to vast numbers of rocky planets, some even the size of stars

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Environment

Wealthy people with environmental ideals are the biggest emitters

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NASA administrator Jared Isaacman (left) announcing its plans to establish a permanent presence on the moon during a press conference at the agency's headquarters in Washington, DC, on 26 May

Space

NASA plans a base on the moon spanning hundreds of square kilometres

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Physics

First quantum grandfather clock could probe where gravity comes from

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Physics

We may finally know why gold stays so shiny

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Mystery Ridge Sea Pen. Credit_ Paul Satchell_The Nippon Foundation-Nekton Ocean Census_Schmidt Ocean Institute

Life

Weird and wonderful sea pen found on Mystery Ridge

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Trains arrive at and depart from Clapham Junction Station in London

Space

Space storms could switch train signals and cause serious accidents

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Press Handout picture: ANCIENT ANAESTHETIC REVEALS THE SOPHISTICATED MEDICINE OF MING CHINA ? Microscopic analysis uncovers traces of anaesthetic on surgical instruments from an early Ming dynasty tomb. https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1ZMcIfEltnmkddbPrcQk66zqZijuvsQhC Photograph shows: The sampled instruments and the residues analysed on each one.

Humans

Earliest use of anaesthetics uncovered in Chinese doctor’s tomb

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flames and smoke rise from an oil storage facility struck in Iran

Environment

Attack on Iran’s oil released as much pollution as a volcano

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White shirt material being cleaned

Space

Mars astronauts may do laundry by blasting clothes with a plasma beam

There is currently no good way for astronauts in space to do laundry, but researchers may have finally come up with one: a bright purple jet of microbe-killing plasma

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Space

Mercury may have gained all of its unexpected water in a single day

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Health

Experimental mRNA vaccine may protect against multiple Ebola viruses

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Mind

Political anger affects the body differently to other forms of anger

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Health

Australia is battling its largest diphtheria outbreak in living memory

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