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Technology

Robotic underwater glider sets out to circumnavigate the globe

Redwing, a robotic submarine about the size of a surfboard, is embarking on a five-year journey that will follow the famed explorer Ferdinand Magellan’s voyage around the world

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Health

Therapy may be the most effective way to ease irritable bowel syndrome

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Health

We’ve discovered another reason why naked mole rats live for so long

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Physics

Swirly lasers can control an ungovernable cousin of magnetism

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A network of nerves (white) throughout the ovary of a mouse (left) and in a fragment of human ovary (right), alongside eggs (green). A growing follicle containing an egg is shown in magenta in the human ovary

Health

Hidden ecosystem of the ovaries plays a surprising role in fertility

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Environment

Top 250 oil and gas firms own just 1.5% of the world’s renewable power

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The skull of King Richard III

Humans

King Richard III’s oral microbiome hints he had severe gum disease

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Surgeons carrying out the pig liver transplant at the First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, China, in May 2024

Health

Pig liver transplant into a living person edges it closer to the norm

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Physics

Electrons inside graphene have been pushed to supersonic speeds

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Mind

Creator of brain organoids on their capabilities and consciousness

Madeline Lancaster on how brain organoids are revealing what truly makes humans unique.

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Space

See an astronaut prepare for spaceflight by journeying through a cave

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Technology

Memory chips just 10 atoms thick could vastly increase capacity

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Space

The moon’s largest crater didn’t form in the way we thought

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Health

Selfish sperm see older fathers pass on more disease-causing mutations

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