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The Amazon rainforest in Brazil

Environment

Deforestation is reducing rainfall all over the tropics

Satellite data shows rainfall in tropical regions across the globe has declined in deforested areas in line with what climate models have been predicting

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Asteroid moonlet Dimorphos as seen by the DART spacecraft 11 seconds before impact. DART?s onboard DRACO imager captured this image from a distance of 42 miles (68 kilometers). This image was the last to contain all of Dimorphos in the field of view. Dimorphos is roughly 525 feet (160 meters) in length. Dimorphos? north is toward the top of the image. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL

Space

What we learned from NASA’s asteroid-smashing DART mission

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Homes damaged by a mudslide in La Ca帽ada, California, during a winter storm

Environment

Winter storms in California cause mudslides, with heavy snow forecast

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A protest outside the White House, Washington DC, in September 2022 urging government action for people with myalgic encephalomyelitis, long covid and other infection-associated chronic conditions

Health

We鈥檙e starting to understand how viruses trigger chronic conditions

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Conjunction of Jupiter and Venus as seen from the Giants Causeway in Northern Ireland

Space

What is the Venus-Jupiter conjunction and how can you view it?

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Falcor (too) in dock
Technology

Inside Falkor (too), the ship searching for life at hydrothermal vents

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The research vessel Falkor (too)

Life

High-tech research ship ready to seek new life at hydrothermal vents

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Mycelium of mushroom. Mycorrhizal association, the fungus colonizes the host plant's root tissues. Mycorrhiza is a symbiotic association. Mycorhize. - Image ID: BDF3AY (RF)

Environment

Adding wild fungi to soil could make trees store more carbon

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Bigclaw snapping shrimp

Life

Young snapping shrimp鈥檚 tiny claws beat underwater acceleration record

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Icelandic Physiologus (c.1200) depiction of the Apsido feeding (Reykjav铆k AM 673 a II 4to fol. 3v
Life

Ancient depictions of Norse sea monsters may be feeding whales

Whales could have been the inspiration for mythological Norse sea monsters known as hafgufa, according to new research

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Life

Aye-aye and possums top list of mammals we should focus on saving

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Life

Tiny insects excrete vast amounts of urine using an anal catapult

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Life

Watch sharpshooter insects launch urine droplets from anal catapult

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Life

Ancient fish thought to be larger than sharks was actually quite short

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