Science
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The bold plan to bring back Tasmanian devils across mainland Australia
Tim Faulkner at Aussie Ark gets ready to release a Tasmanian devil in a fenced sanctuary at Barrington Tops, Australia…
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US stops sharing flu data with WHO amidst one of its worst flu seasons
The US withdrawal from the World Health Organization formally takes one year, but the country has already stopped sharing influenza…
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How one farm is testing multiple carbon-capture tricks all at once
Wilbourne Farm in Virginia James Dinneen Kade Wilbourne pulls a lever, and several tonnes of volcanic rock shoot out onto…
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Hair conditioner made from wood is black and smelly, but eco-friendly
The black hair conditioner on the left is derived from the wood powder on the right Fengyang Wang/Stockholm University This…
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Striking artworks reveal the beauty of mushrooms and other soil life
Fly Agaric Marshmallow Laser Feast Soils around the world are polluted, worn out, over-fertilised and exhausted. How did we get…
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Time can move both forwards and backwards at the quantum scale
Does time move backwards in some situations? sakkmesterke/Alamy Some quantum systems may have two arrows of time, one running forwards…
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Asteroid 2024 YR4 will now almost certainly miss Earth in 2032
Astronomers have raced to observe asteroid 2024 YR4 NASA/Magdalena Ridge 2.4m telescope/New Mexico Institute of Technology/Ryan The world’s space agencies…
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Mini-brains have been fused to resemble that of a 40-day-old fetus
Brain organoids derived from human embryonic stem cells being grown in the lab ARTHUR CHIEN/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY Human “mini-brains” that…
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Our Brains, Our Selves review: Riveting case studies show how neurology shapes us
What marks out individuals from each other? Is it possible to change personality overnight? Neil Massey/Millennium Images, UK Our Brains, Our SelvesMasud…
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AI can decode digital data stored in DNA in minutes instead of days
DNA can store digital data, such as visual and audio files Science Picture Co / Alamy Artificial intelligence can read…
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