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Is it possible to turn Venus from boiling hellscape to liveable world?
Venus is not a great place to be. Its surface reaches temperatures up to 475°C, which is hot enough to…
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Squeezing loofah sponges creates enough electricity to power LEDs
Loofah sponges are made from the dried husks of luffa gourds Andriana Syvanych/Shutterstock Loofah sponges – the porous husks left…
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Jellyfish can learn from experience even though they lack a brain
A Caribbean box jellyfish Jan Bielecki Caribbean box jellyfish can learn from experience, even though they lack a central brain.…
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Xenotransplant: Surgeons perform the second ever pig-to-human heart transplant
Doctors in the operating room during the transplant of the second-ever pig heart into a human recipient Tom Jemski (UMSOM…
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Man who sees upside down provides clues on how we process faces
Claudio was born with a joint condition that restricted the range of motion in the joints of his neck Brad…
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Europa’s underground ocean seems to have the carbon necessary for life
Artist’s impression of Europa (foreground) with Jupiter to the right and the moon Io in the distance. NASA/JPL-Caltech The ocean…
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‘Dark earth’ made by Amazon farmers stores carbon for centuries
A dark earth deposit at the Xingu archaeological site in the south-western Amazon Associação Indigena Kuikuro do Alto Xingu (AIKAX)…
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Extinct Tasmanian tiger yields RNA secrets that could aid resurrection
This thylacine has been in the Swedish Museum of Natural History’s collection for over a century Emilio Mármol Sánchez /Panagiotis…
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How many cells are there in the human body?
A coloured transmission electron micrograph of bone marrow cells DR GOPAL MURTI/SPL The average adult male has around 36 trillion…
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JWST has taken an astonishing image of a baby star with powerful jets
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s image of Herbig-Haro 211 ESA/Webb, NASA, CSA, Tom Ray This newborn star is blasting out…
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