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US sailors recovering the Chinese high-altitude surveillance balloon

Technology

Chinese spy balloon: Everything we know after US recovers wreckage

The US has recovered the wreckage of a Chinese surveillance balloon after shooting it down with a fighter jet last week 鈥� here's what has been discovered and what it might mean

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Goffin's cockatoo using tools

Life

Cockatoos understand when a job requires a toolkit

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An artist's impression of 鈥極umuamua, passing through the solar system

Space

Space rock or flashy alien technology? We’re going to find out

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Paranthropus, early human relative

Humans

Early hominin Paranthropus may have used sophisticated stone tools

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This is an artistic reconstruction of the Guiyang Biota. Guiyang Biota represents the oldest known Mesozoic lagerst?tte found so far. Guiyang Biota represents one of the earliest complete marine ecosystems after the great dying in Earth history. Guiyang Biota contains representatives of all trophic levels, especially abundant fish and decapod fossils, including about 1 m length coelacanths, and the earliest occurrences of lobsters and shrimps, extending the earliest record forward by 1.5 million years.

Life

Sea life recovered from Permian mass extinction faster than we thought

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A person spraying some plants

Health

Massive tick-killing effort fails to reduce Lyme disease cases

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SARS-CoV-2 could evolve into new variants that may evade existing vaccines

Health

Inhaled powder that coats airways can block coronavirus infection

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People waiting in the waiting room of a doctor's office

Health

People with low incomes spend longer waiting for basic services in US

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In a trial, some participants were asked to reduce their calorie intake by 25 per cent every day. After two years, they showed signs of slowed biological ageing in one test, but not in others

Health

Does restricting calories slow down ageing? We simply don’t know

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Puppy eating from a bowl

Life

Dogs that eat raw food rather than kibble have better gut health

According to surveys of 7000 owners, dogs that ate mostly dog food were 29 per cent more likely to develop gastrointestinal problems compared to dogs that mostly ate raw foods

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Life

Soil produces subtle noises that could reveal how healthy a forest is

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Health

Antiviral treatment cuts covid-19 hospitalisation rate in half

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Mind

Your brain produces more entropy while you are awake

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Space

Weird dust ring orbits the sun alongside Mercury and we don’t know why

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