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Laser beams crossing in different directions from several different sources

Physics

New kind of laser uses tiny particle clumps to generate light

Lasers normally use mirrors to create laser light, but a new kind uses clumps of moving particles. The result is a laser that is more programmable and could generate extra-sharp visual displays

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Rock pooling with Helen Scales
Life

Rock pool science with marine biologist Helen Scales

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Octa-glove

Technology

Octopus-inspired glove lets you manipulate objects underwater

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Robot arm

Technology

Robot that can perceive its body has self-awareness, claim researchers

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Mandatory Credit: Photo by CAROLINE BREHMAN/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock (13023803f) Healthcare worker Jesus Eduardo Lara, collects information before taking a nasal swab sample to test for Covid-19, at a Total Testing Solutions Covid Testing Center in Los Angeles, California, USA, 08 July 2022. Covid-19 positive patients in Los Angeles County hospitals has risen to over 1000 people since 02 July, as highly contagious variants of the virus take hold. Los Angeles County Covid-19 hospitalizations surge, USA - 08 Jul 2022

We can curb surging covid-19 cases 鈥� but we can’t do it without data

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Humans

Jurassic World Dominion’s dinosaur trafficking isn’t far from reality

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Ariel view of off road tracks near Muriwai Beach, Auckland, New Zealand. Deforestation.

Environment

Forests are becoming less resilient because of climate change

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Starfish living crystal

Life

Starfish embryos form weird ‘living crystal’ we have never seen before

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An olive ridley turtle leaving its egg

Life

Moving turtle eggs to protect them disrupts brain development

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A Ukrainian soldier observing the area at a destroyed bridge

Technology

Efforts to regulate ‘killer robots’ are threatened by war in Ukraine

International efforts to legally control the use of "killer robots" are faltering because of Russia鈥檚 invasion of Ukraine

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Life

Penguins adapt their accents to sound more like their friends

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Space

James Webb Space Telescope team quietly releases a picture of Jupiter

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Space

James Webb Space Telescope pictures: Your questions answered

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Health

Modified pig hearts transplanted into dead people kept on life support

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