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Forest cleared for oil palm plantations

Environment

Outdoor workers are losing hours due to overheating from deforestation

Forests have a localised cooling effect, and in tropical areas where deforestation has occurred, outdoor workers are now feeling the heat more

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Lab technician

Health

How did the omicron coronavirus variant evolve to be so dangerous?

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Tardigrade

Physics

Tardigrade is first multicellular organism to be quantum entangled

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Lateral flow tests

Health

How reliable are covid-19 lateral flow tests for detecting omicron?

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Crocidura caudipilosa

Life

Fourteen new species of shrew discovered on an Indonesian island

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A paddle is about to hit the ball in a regular game of Pong

Mind

Human brain cells in a dish learn to play Pong faster than an AI

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D413MM Roof windows under snow during winter.

Technology

Smart windows keep heat in during winter and let it out in summer

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iPhones

Technology

NSO iPhone malware builds a computer inside your phone to steal data

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A ten-centimetre-long, yellow-brown female Eumillipes persephone millipede with 1306 legs

Life

Millipede in Australia is first to actually have more than 1000 legs

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Faroe Islands. Northern Atlantic 2017 Ei?i, Eysturoy, Faeroe Islands

Humans

People occupied the Faroe Islands 300 years earlier than we thought

The Faroe Islands sit between Iceland, Norway and Great Britain, and were thought to have been first populated by the Vikings around AD 800, but new evidence suggests it may have been Britons in AD 500

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Humans

Languages could go extinct at a rate of one per month this century

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Environment

Fires in Brazil’s wetlands killed almost 17 million animals in 2020

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Life

T. rex had more powerful jaws than its theropod dinosaur ancestors

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Technology

Robotic fish scares invasive species so badly that it cannot breed

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