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Zophobas morio

Environment

Polystyrene-eating beetle larvae could help us recycle plastics

Enzymes made by gut bacteria in larvae of the beetle Zophobas morio can degrade polystyrene used in packaging, and could help recycle plastics

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Light bursting through the ocean

Environment

Thousands of previously undescribed viruses found by huge ocean survey

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A stock image of crystals

Chemistry

A new kind of time crystal has been created and lasts 10 milliseconds

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A chip from Google's Sycamore quantum computer

Mathematics

Quantum computers proved to have 鈥榪uantum advantage鈥� on some tasks

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A cell sample being pipetted into a multi-well plate containing growth nutrient medium

Health

Experimental umbilical cord stem cell therapy treats rare disease

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dog and man

Life

Dogs have two gene mutations that explain why they are friendly

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Fernanda, the only known living Fernandina giant tortoise (Chelonoidis phantasticus, or ?fantastic giant tortoise?), now lives at the Gal?pagos National Park's Giant Tortoise Breeding Center on Santa Cruz Island. Fernanda, named after her Fernandina Island home, is the first of her species identified in more than a century. Princeton geneticist Stephen Gaughran successfully extracted DNA from a specimen collected from the same island more than a century ago and confirmed that Fernanda and the museum specimen are members of the same species and genetically distinct from all other Gal?pagos tortoises.

Life

Galapagos tortoise thought extinct for 100 years has been found alive

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robot finger

Technology

杏吧原创s covered a robot finger in living human skin

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A pregnant person having an ultrasound scan in 2020

Health

Covid-19 in pregnancy linked to delays in babies reaching milestones

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A zinc sulfate crystal under polarised light

Physics

Quantum computers could create completely new forms of matter

The way we can tweak interactions between qubits in quantum computers means the machines could help us create novel structures with weird properties we have never seen in nature

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Health

Black people less likely than white to get Parkinson鈥檚 surgery in US

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Environment

Trees are protecting Raphael paintings by soaking up pollution in Rome

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Health

Covid-19 news: Moderna鈥檚 omicron booster has promising immune response

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Space

James Webb Space Telescope was hit by a tiny space rock 鈥� but it鈥檚 OK

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