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Health

Umbilical cord ‘milking’ cuts brain injury risk for babies born limp

Squeezing nutrient-rich blood from the umbilical cord into babies who are born pale or struggling to breathe improves health outcomes

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Ant-slayer spider attacking an ant

Life

Ant-slayer spider catches prey with acrobatic leap to wrap it in silk

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Black worker ants dragging vegetation to the colony

Life

There are 20,000,000,000,000,000 ants crawling all over Earth

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Aerial view of Central Park, New York City

Environment

Global warming could kill many of the tree species that cool cities

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A face mask with virus sensor next to a laptop

Technology

Smart face mask could detect coronavirus on other people鈥檚 breath

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Environment

Feeding farm by-products to livestock could boost our food supply

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Webb?s first images of Mars, captured by its NIRCam instrument Sept. 5, 2022 [Guaranteed Time Observation Program 1415]. Left: Reference map of the observed hemisphere of Mars from NASA and the Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter (MOLA). Top right: NIRCam image showing 2.1-micron (F212 filter) reflected sunlight, revealing surface features such as craters and dust layers. Bottom right: Simultaneous NIRCam image showing ~4.3-micron (F430M filter) emitted light that reveals temperature differences with latitude and time of day, as well as darkening of the Hellas Basin caused by atmospheric effects. The bright yellow area is just at the saturation limit of the detector

Space

James Webb Space Telescope captures its first pictures of Mars

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A coloured scanning electron micrograph of a cell (green) infected with the omicron variant of the coronavirus (purple)

Health

The omicron coronavirus variant may protect against flu

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A picture of a man spraying hot foam on weeds

Environment

Plant-based hot foam kills weeds as effectively as chemical spray

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People looking at a picture of grapes on a tablet

Mind

Brain scans reveal the areas that light up when we look at food

Two regions in the ventral visual cortex of the brain are selectively activated by images of food, reflecting the importance of food for human survival and culture

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Health

Covid-19 pandemic linked to early onset of puberty in some girls

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Physics

Liquid robot can split into tiny droplets and reform into a blob

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Space

Closest black hole to Earth is just 1500 light years away

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Technology

Tiny static electricity generators could produce power from waves

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