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A spotted snow skink

Life

Lizard can switch from female to male before birth, but not vice versa

Some offspring of the spotted snow skink, a lizard found in Tasmania, are born anatomically male but are genetically female

Posidonia australis

Life

Australian seagrass has cloned itself to cover 180 kilometres of coast

A cockroach robot

Technology

Watch this cockroach robot squirm through a tricky obstacle course

Space

The rise of SpinLaunch, the company planning to hurl things into space

Megalodon

Life

Megalodon vs great white: New clues to demise of world鈥檚 largest shark

Pierre-Alain Clavien and Philipp Dutkowski

Health

Damaged liver repaired inside machine for three days before transplant

A stock image of a person testing their blood sugar level

Health

Type 2 diabetes linked to cognitive decline in older age

Supercomputer

Technology

World’s first exascale supercomputer Frontier smashes speed records

NuScale Power Plant Design

Technology

Mini nuclear power stations may produce more waste than large ones

artificial membrane

Technology

Synthetic membrane could lead to self-replicating artificial cells

A synthetic membrane that contains key proteins used in cell division could one day help artificial cells replicate themselves

Space

Betelgeuse star dimming puzzle solved by chance with weather satellite

Space

鈥榋ombie鈥� pulsar is spinning slower than should be physically possible

Chemistry

Adding tomato pigment to solar panels increases their efficiency

Technology

AI beats a thousand of the world’s best human crossword solvers