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Hundreds of dead crabs on the beach at Seaton Carew, Hartlepool in 2021 https://twitter.com/12BBYTHESEASIDE/status/1452164992845983744 Paul Grainger (permissions granted)

Environment

What鈥檚 causing a mass die-off of crabs on the UK coast?

A new study points to pyridine pollution as the most likely culprit behind the deaths of crustaceans, with dredging in the river Tees a possible source

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The Nobel Prize in Physics 2022 was awarded to Alain Aspect, John F. Clauser and Anton Zeilinger ?for experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science?.

Physics

Nobel prize in physics awarded to pioneers of quantum information

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Environment

Megadrought could become the new normal in the south-western US

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Astronomers using the NSF???s NOIRLab???s SOAR telescope in Chile captured the vast plume of dust and debris blasted from the surface of the asteroid Dimorphos by NASA???s DART spacecraft when it impacted on 26 September 2022. In this image, the more than 10,000 kilometer long dust trail ??? the ejecta that has been pushed away by the Sun???s radiation pressure, not unlike the tail of a comet ??? can be seen stretching from the center to the right-hand edge of the field of view.

Space

Photo shows 10,000 km debris tail caused by DART asteroid smash

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A destroyed car is seen in the Matanzas Pass after Hurricane Ian caused widespread destruction in Fort Myers Beach, Florida, U.S., October 1, 2022. REUTERS/Marco Bello - RC2BSW95BDVH

Environment

Hurricane Ian has left thousands without power and clean water

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A man listening to music via application on tablet computer

Mind

Learning to play an instrument could boost your short-term memory

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A series of hominoid crania (counterclockwise from the L): juvenile Australopithecus, adult Australopithecus, adult chimpanzee, juvenile chimpanzee, adult Homo erectus (center). Specimens photographed at the UO Museum of Natural and Cultural History.

Humans

Our ancestors鈥� prenatal growth sped up after we split from chimps

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Technology

Algorithm can design the perfect cycle lane system for any city

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Geneticist Svante P盲盲bo has been awarded a Nobel prize for his work on evolutionary genetics

Health

Nobel prize awarded for study of human evolution using ancient DNA

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An artist's impression of the Kuiper belt

Space

A long-lost rogue planet could explain unexpectedly distant asteroids

The outer solar system holds some chunks of ice and rock that orbit so far from the sun it鈥檚 hard to imagine how they got there 鈥� but an ancient rogue planet may hold the key

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Technology

Computer made from swirly magnets can recognise handwritten digits

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Health

‘Superagers’ with sharp memories in their 80s have larger neurons

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Technology

Stealth rubber coating could make submarines nearly invisible to sonar

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Technology

People trust AI to make big decisions 鈥� as long as a human checks them

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