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Humans

Make mistakes on purpose 鈥� it can dramatically boost your performance

"Deliberate erring" offers a surprising but effective way to enhance your memory and improve how you perform in many unexpected areas of life, says David Robson

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Humans

Time to take a long, hard look at humanity’s future in the cosmos

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Life

Sorry Darwin, but it turns out promiscuity benefits females too

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This illustration of NASA's Perseverance Mars rover indicates the placement of the spacecraft's two microphones. The microphone on the mast is part of the SuperCam science instrument. The microphone on the side of the rover was intended to capture the sounds of entry, descent, and landing for public engagement. A key objective for Perseverance's mission on Mars is astrobiology, including the search for signs of ancient microbial life. The rover will characterize the planet's geology and past climate, pave the way for human exploration of the Red Planet, and be the first mission to collect and cache Martian rock and regolith (broken rock and dust). Subsequent NASA missions, in cooperation with ESA (European Space Agency), would send spacecraft to Mars to collect these sealed samples from the surface and return them to Earth for in-depth analysis. The Mars 2020 Perseverance mission is part of NASA's Moon to Mars exploration approach, which includes Artemis missions to the Moon that will help prepare for human exploration of the Red Planet.

Space

Perseverance rover measures speed of sound on Mars for the first time

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Celsus Library in ancient city Ephesus

Humans

AI can help historians restore ancient texts from damaged inscriptions

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Mus macleari = Rattus macleari Date 1887

Life

Resurrecting extinct species from their DNA is essentially impossible

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Chernobyl nuclear power plant

Physics

Chernobyl power cut sparks fears of potential for radiation leaks

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The RMF-Owl is designed to be collision-tolerant for subterranean exploration

Technology

Collision-dodging drones can navigate tight spaces without crashing

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Environment

Endurance wreck: Ernest Shackleton’s lost ship found off Antarctica

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Type specimen of Hanyusuchus sinensis from the Bronze Age of China (above), and life restoration (below: drawn by Hikaru Amemiya).

Life

A 6-metre-long crocodile relative lived in China during the Bronze Age

A large species of gharial, an animal closely related to crocodiles, roamed China 3000 years ago, but was probably driven extinct by humans

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Environment

EU lays out plan to cut Russian gas imports by two-thirds in 2022

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Humans

Chernobyl staff denied access to radiation monitoring lab

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Space

NASA鈥檚 Ingenuity helicopter has captured over 2200 photographs of Mars

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Life

How a rodent鈥檚 fear of cats shapes rainforests in Panama

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