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Chemistry

Scientists created a new carbon molecule for the second time ever

For the first time in 35 years, scientists have analysed a new type of all-carbon molecule at room temperature, without the extreme conditions usually required to stabilise this type of molecule

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Health

New subtype of diabetes found in youths from sub-Saharan Africa

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Someone with paralysis using the brain-computer interface. The text above is the cued sentence and the text below is what is being decoded in real-time as she imagines speaking the sentence

Mind

Mind-reading AI can turn even imagined speech into spoken words

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Environment

2024 saw a record-breaking number of dangerously hot and humid days

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Health

Living at high altitude may help ward off obesity

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Health

ADHD drugs reduce risk of criminal behaviour, drug abuse and accidents

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An illustration of the production of the key signalling molecule interferon, produced by a protein complex binding to DNA

Health

mRNA drugs could protect against almost any kind of viral infection

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Technology

Jacket that gets thinner when you sweat could help avoid overheating

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This file photo shows a manned lunar lander during a trial at a test site in Huailai County, north China's Hebei Province. China on Thursday announced that it has successfully completed a comprehensive test for the landing and takeoff of its manned lunar lander at a test site in Huailai County, Hebei Province. The test completed on Wednesday represents a key step in the development of China's manned lunar exploration program, and it also marks the first time that China has carried out a test for extraterrestrial landing and takeoff of a manned spacecraft, said the China Manned Space Agency.

China’s lunar lander completes key test for mission to the moon

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Environment

Pacific Ocean changes may ‘lock in’ US megadrought for decades

A major cycle of Pacific Ocean temperatures is shifting due to climate change, and that could drive decades of megadrought in the western US

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Environment

The surprising way plants can slow Arctic melt

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Technology

Tiny discs can levitate in the upper atmosphere using sunlight alone

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Humans

Fossil teeth may come from a new species of early hominin

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Technology

GPT-5’s modest gains suggest AI progress is slowing down

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