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Naked mole rat

Life

Naked mole rats reveal biological secrets of lifelong fertility

Fertility declines with age in most female mammals, but naked mole rats can develop new eggs as adults, enabling them to remain fertile throughout their lives

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Map of part of Maysan province, Iraq, showing the predicted location of archaeological sites

Technology

AI spots Mesopotamian archaeological sites in satellite images

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Quantum computer

Physics

Quantum computers could run programs that should be too big for them

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Map of paths taken by the AI agents

Technology

AI with no visual sensors generates an internal map to finds its way

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HIV (green) infecting an immune cell

Health

Third person ‘cured’ of HIV after receiving stem cell cancer treatment

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A woman partially paralysed by stroke was able to use utensils to eat independently after spinal cord stimulation

Health

Spinal cord stimulation helps people with stroke regain arm movement

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Tiktaalik, an early fish that crawled on land

Life

Spine of early crawling fish was becoming more like a land animal’s

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A rare blue calamintha bee photographed by Levon Biss
Life

Endangered insects photographed in unprecedented detail

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Nordic Optical Telescope

Space

A weird comet is travelling through space with a dust blob it made

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Loggerhead turtle

Life

Turtles stranded on UK beaches after storms send them off course

Fifteen turtles have been stranded in the UK and Ireland since November, a high number attributed to stormy weather in the US and Caribbean

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Technology

How AI chatbots in search engines will completely change the internet

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Environment

Green home designs put to the test in giant climate-controlled chamber

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Health

Why chocolate cravings strike a week or two before a menstrual period

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Society

Rise in US gun sales during the pandemic linked to extremist beliefs

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