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Mandatory Credit: Photo by Kin Cheung/AP/Shutterstock (12833050v) Health workers from mainland China work at the Huo-Yan (Fire Eye) Laboratory, an inflatable mobile testing lab in Hong Kong, . Hong Kong has ramped up its testing capacity with the help of inflatable mobile laboratories, as the city grapples with tens of thousands of COVID-19 cases daily Virus Outbreak , Hong Kong, Hong Kong - 04 Mar 2022

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Why has the omicron coronavirus variant hit Hong Kong so hard?

Covid-19 cases are soaring in Hong Kong, and the government鈥檚 focus on testing instead of vaccinating older populations may be the reason deaths are spiking and hospitals are overwhelmed

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Human kidney

Health

Your organs may be ageing at different rates

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The hidden cause of premature ageing: Advanced Glycation End products

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Mandatory Credit: Photo by Xinhua/Shutterstock (12538561d) Photo taken on Sept. 26, 2021 shows an exterior view of the Fuligong Greenhouses at Kunming Botanical Garden in Kunming, southwest China's Yunnan Province. China Yunnan Kunming Cop15 Botanical Garden Fuligong - 26 Sep 2021

Environment

Crucial COP15 biodiversity summit set to be delayed a fourth time

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R17CX7 Blockchain technology concept. 3d illustration.

Technology

Encryption meant to protect against quantum hackers is easily cracked

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Some spider species hunt in packs, moving as one to catch their prey

Life

Social spiders synchronise to catch prey hundreds of times their size

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Chinese Goose

Humans

Geese may have been the first birds to be domesticated 7000 years ago

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The parthenogenetic mouse and the offspring. The parthenogenetic mouse was generated by targeted epigenetic rewriting of multiple imprinting control regions. The parthenogenetic mouse exhibited normal reproductive performance as an adult.

Life

Mouse pups born from unfertilised eggs through genetic manipulation

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Inhaling leaded petrol as a child may affect an adult's IQ

Health

Leaded petrol may have lowered the IQ of over half the US population

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2CWY69N A motorcyclist rides in an area deforested for informal gold mining, along the Interoceanic highway section linking Peru and Brazil in the Amazon region of Madre de Dios, August 20, 2010. Parts of land along the highway have undergone deforestation for agriculture purposes and the advancement of informal mining. At least 18,000 hectares of forest, including indigenous land, have been transformed into desert in this region, according to Peru's Environment Minister Antonio Brack. Picture taken August 20, 2010. REUTERS/Mariana Bazo (PERU - Tags: ENVIRONMENT SOCIETY AGRICULTURE)

Environment

Amazon rainforest nears tipping point that may see it become savannah

More than three-quarters of the world's largest rainforest has become less resilient to drought since the early 2000s, with areas near humans and with lower rainfall being the worst hit

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Mind

Special brain cells may signal when to start new memories

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Life

Fossil hints that orcas don鈥檛 have a long history of killing whales

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Space

China鈥檚 Zhurong Mars rover finds hints landscape was shaped by water

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Health

Health Check newsletter: How our minds can affect our bodies

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