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Tadpoles can change colour to blend in with their environment

When tadpoles are raised in white, black or grey trays, they adapt their colour to match their background, which may help them avoid being eaten by birds and fish

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plastic bottles

Technology

Plant protein capsules could make it easier to add vitamin D to drinks

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Health

Key immune cells may help protect against inflammatory bowel disease

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A child with a sore knee

Health

Growing pains may indicate a greater risk of migraines later in life

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Bridge author, Lauren Beukes: There are a lot of multiverses out there

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Environment

High-flying microplastics could pose a threat to the ozone layer

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A game of World

Technology

Thousands of people apparently cheat at Wordle every day

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Herbig-Haro 211

Space

JWST has taken an astonishing image of a baby star with powerful jets

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Insect-size robot can crawl, turn and jump by triggering chemical explosions. Most robots are powered by electric motors and batteries which are tried-and-tested reliable technology but cannot be miniaturised past a certain point. Now Cameron Aubin and Robert Shepherd at Cornell University and colleagues have turned instead to chemical fuel - methane - which can store energy at much higher density than lithium-ion batteries and be scaled down to tiny insect-sized devices.

Technology

Watch a frog-like robot use tiny explosions to hop around

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A meeting of NASA's UAP study team

Earth

NASA鈥檚 UFO task force has released its final report 鈥� it鈥檚 not aliens

An independent task force formed by NASA to look into unidentified anomalous phenomena found no evidence of alien craft, and suggests that if we want to find proof of visitors we need better data

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Environment

Oxygen levels are dropping in rivers across the US and central Europe

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Health

MDMA therapy for PTSD expected to get US approval after latest trial

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Mind

Brain implant lets people control devices using brain signals

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