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DJ0W3Y The orangutans are the two exclusively Asian species of extant great apes. Native to Indonesia and Malaysia.

Life

Orangutans can learn how to use stone tools as hammers and knives

Captive orangutans that had never seen stone tools could work out how to use them to hit or cut things 鈥� but they couldn鈥檛 get the hang of making them

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Life reconstruction of Iberospinus natarioi (ML1190)

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Newly identified dinosaur had teeth that were constantly replaced

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Semi Submersible Oil Rig during Sunrise at Cromarty Firth in Invergordon, Scotland; Shutterstock ID 554842060; purchase_order: -; job: -; client: -; other: -

Environment

Oil giants accused of greenwashing for failure over energy transition

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Technology

It is only human to treat the metaverse with scepticism 鈥� here鈥檚 why

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Let鈥檚 hear it for the space Cinderellas 鈥� Earth-observing satellites

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KRASNOYARSK TERRITORY, RUSSIA - APRIL 17, 2021: An aerial view of the village of Nosok, Taymyrsky Dolgano-Nenetsky District. It is also the location of the Zarya Taimyra [Taymyr Dawn] state reindeer farming enterprise. Alexander Ryumin/TASS (Photo by Alexander Ryumin\TASS via Getty Images)

Environment

A collaborative approach is needed to avoid the next pandemic

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JILA researchers measured time dilation, or how an atomic clock's ticking rate varied by elevation, within this tiny cloud of strontium atoms.

Physics

Most precise atomic clock shows Einstein鈥檚 general relativity is right

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2HJF0FC DRAX POWER STATION, DRAX, UK - JANUARY 19, 2022. An aerial view of a rail freight train delivering renewable biomass fuel to Drax Power Station

Technology

The race is on to tackle climate change by pulling carbon from the air

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Description: Camera image of a plasma inside the TCV tokamak, regions of different colors correspond to different temperatures of the hot plasma. The center of the plasma is so hot that it does not emit visible light. Credit: Curdin W?thrich / SPC/EPFL

Physics

DeepMind uses AI to control plasma inside tokamak fusion reactor

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An Asian common toad photographed in Madagascar

Life

Invasive poisonous toads are killing Madagascar’s native snakes

There is evidence of a significant death rate among Malagasy snakes that attempt to eat the poisonous Asian common toad

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Technology

Google and Waymo used driverless cars to make a virtual San Francisco

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Mind

We may be unable to grow new brain cells after we enter adulthood

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Health

We seem to find people with a strong immune system more attractive

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Life

Some humpback whales travel 6000 kilometres in search of a mate

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