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Homo naledi skull

Humans

Homo naledi may have used fire to cook and navigate 230,000 years ago

Archaeologists say they have found evidence that Homo naledi, an extinct human species with a tiny brain, used fire to cook and light up dark tunnels 鈥� though this claim remains controversial

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B640PK Antarctica, Adelie penguins ( pygoscelis adeliae ) kissing

Life

Ad茅lie penguins show signs of self-awareness on the mirror test

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A view of Earth rising over the moon from the Orion capsule

Space

Amazing image of crescent Earth rising over the moon captured by Orion

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TOPSHOT - A deforested and burnt area is seen on a stretch of the BR-230 (Transamazonian highway) in Humait??, Amazonas State, Brazil, on September 16, 2022. - According to the National Institute for Space Research (INPE), hotspots in the Amazon region saw a record increase in the first half of September, being the average for the month 1,400 fires per day. (Photo by MICHAEL DANTAS / AFP) (Photo by MICHAEL DANTAS/AFP via Getty Images)

Environment

COP15 target to reverse biodiversity loss by 2030 is 鈥榰nrealistic鈥�

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Fig. 4 | PhotGirl with a Pearl Earring and Mona Lisa, in miniatureorealistic plasmonic full-colour nanopainting. a, Schematic diagram of designing a patterned metasurface for simultaneously realizing various colour hues and brightness. b?d, Experimentally captured optical photographs of the metasurface-based artworks Girl with a Pearl Earring Matching image (b), Mona Lisa (c) and Virgin of the Rocks (d). The images show ultrasmooth transitions between the different colour hues and brightness by using our plasmonic colouring approach. Scale bars, 200??m.

Technology

Girl with a Pearl Earring and Mona Lisa recreated with nanotechnology

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The omicron coronavirus variant binding to a cell's ACE2 receptor

Health

Drug that targets ACE2 receptors may work against new covid variants

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Fissure near Cerberus Fossae with Tectonic Morphologies NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Arizona

Space

Mars may have a huge plume of hot rocks rising towards its surface

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A razorbill in Italian waters

Environment

Hundreds of razorbills have been turning up far from home in Italy

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Flying squirrels carve nuts to store them securely in tree branches
Life

Flying squirrels carve nuts to store them securely in tree branches

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Pair of vaquita sighted during 2008 survey in Gulf of California

Life

Mexico鈥檚 latest plan to save endangered vaquitas could backfire

Hundreds of cement pillars with hooks have been deployed in the Gulf of California to snag fishing nets that threaten endangered porpoises, but these could also trap sea life and pollute the waters

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Technology

Most people who threatened to quit Twitter for Mastodon haven’t left

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Mind

Liza Bec: The composer living with music-triggered epilepsy

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Life

The 3013 neurons in the brain of a fly larva have been mapped in full

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Space

Plasma sail spacecraft could soar like an albatross to Alpha Centauri

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