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Lightning bolts over the Las Vegas skyline

Physics

Firing a laser into the sky can redirect lightning鈥檚 path

A laser fired from a tower on a mountain seems to have redirected lightning in the sky and could be used to make storm clouds discharge lightning safely

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Two rooks in an aviary

Life

Cambridge lab for clever birds saved from closure by public donations

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A building with shutters outside the windows

Environment

How can the UK keep homes cool without air conditioning?

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A phone screen showing Bing and Google Chrome apps

Technology

Top 10 search results from Google and Bing differ by up to 75 per cent

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The Small Magellanic Cloud

Space

Astronomers are mapping millions of hidden galaxies

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2DKK94C Midsection Of Boy Holding Knee

Health

We don’t actually know what ‘growing pains’ are

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Spiny Pufferfish (Cyclichthys orbicularis)

Chemistry

Fast way of making pufferfish鈥檚 neurotoxin may lead to new pain drugs

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Lab-grown 'mini-brains' could help prevent motor neurone disease
Health

How lab-grown ‘mini-brains’ could help prevent motor neurone disease

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A scanning electron microscopy and computer generated image of DNA molecules and red blood cells

Health

Gene therapy trial shows early success in people with haemophilia B

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KH4CJP Himalayan Griffon Vulture, Gyps himalayensis, Panna Tiger Reserve, Rajasthan, India

Life

As more bird species go extinct those that are left may be more alike

A global analysis predicts that as we lose more bird species to extinction, those that remain will be more similar in terms of size, beak shape and other features

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Space

Astronomers devise new way to observe traces of the first stars

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Health

Brain molecule may make us recall memories as being good or bad

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Space

China prepares to launch laboratory module to Tiangong space station

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Health

Doctors are concerned about the risk of hospital-acquired covid-19

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