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A zebrafish

Life

Zebrafish produce sunscreen to protect their embryos from UV light

Zebrafish eggs contain a compound called gadusol that acts as a sunscreen to protect the developing embryos from the sun鈥檚 rays

Space

Fast-growing galaxy seen by JWST offers window on the early universe

Life

Life-extending parasite makes ants live at least three times longer

The AlphaGarden robotic gardener

Technology

Robot gardener grows plants as well as humans do but uses less water

Alligators in Florida help other life thrive

Life

Alligators create hotspots for life by digging holes with their snouts

A brown plaque formed in a human brain produced by the virus-like prion that causes Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

Health

Experimental treatment could work against prion diseases like CJD

People standing on a glass floor at the Ostankino tower in Moscow, Russia

Mind

We know now what happens in our brain to make us scared of heights

Mind

Could your gut bacteria influence how intelligent you are?

Couples are less likely to physically collide with others than friends

Technology

Couples collide with fewer people on walks than pairs of friends do

Snakes are quite quantum, mathematically speaking

Life

Wiggly worms and quantum objects follow surprisingly similar equations

An equation developed to describe the motion of undulating animals and robots looks like the famous Schr枚dinger equation from quantum mechanics

Health

Diabetes drug metformin may cut the risk of long covid by 41 per cent

Life

Losing a leg in youth changes how male harvestmen woo females

Space

Astronomers are using a new supernova to search for alien signals

Space

Has anyone really seen evidence of aliens visiting Earth?