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Space

Strange binary star system has three Earth-sized exoplanets

Exoplanets in binary star systems usually orbit both stars, but astronomers have now spotted three planets orbiting one or the other star in a pair

Health

Bird flu virus that infected a person in Missouri had a rare mutation

Physics

Light has been seen leaving an atom cloud before it entered

The crew will attempt the first commercial spacewalk with SpaceX-designed extravehicular activity suits, upgraded from the current intravehicular suit.

Space

Current laws cannot protect civilians in space if something goes wrong

Technology

Tiny nuclear-powered battery could work for decades in space or at sea

Illustration of the giant black hole jets known as Porphyrion

Space

Black hole鈥檚 jets are so huge that they may shake up cosmology

Physics

Freak waves may be more dangerous than we thought possible

Technology

鈥楽hazam for whales鈥� uses AI to track sounds heard in Mariana Trench

Computer generated three-dimensional perspective of the surface of Venus including the volcano Maat Mons.

Space

Venus could be rocked by thousands of quakes every year

Some lizards can stay underwater for longer by blowing out and then rebreathing bubbles of air. This has been suspected since the behaviour was first observed, and now Lindsey Swierk at Binghamton University in New York has confirmed it.

Life

Air jacket helps ‘scuba-diving’ lizards stay underwater for longer

Some lizards dive into streams to escape predators, and a specialised bubble-breathing technique enables them to stay submerged for up to 18 minutes

Environment

People hugely underestimate the carbon footprints of the 1 per cent

Technology

Quantum computers teleport and store energy harvested from empty space

Physics

Our reality seems to be compatible with a quantum multiverse

Life

Some flowers may have evolved long stems to be better 鈥榮een鈥� by bats