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Honey bee workers

Life

World’s most common bee originated 7 million years ago in Asia

A genetic analysis suggests the world鈥檚 most common species of honeybee, the western honeybee, first appeared in western Asia about 7 million years ago and then spread into Africa and Europe

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Vaccinations taking place at Derby's Pakistani Community Centre in April, 2021

Health

Multigenerational households a factor in covid-19 ethnic disparities

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A woman checks her EU Digital Covid certificate on her mobilephone at El Prat airport in Barcelona on July 1, 2021. - The European health certificate, which Belgium began using on June 16, 2021, will become operational across the EU on July 1, 2021. (Photo by Pau BARRENA / AFP) (Photo by PAU BARRENA/AFP via Getty Images)

Technology

Fake covid-19 vaccine certificates are being sold on the dark web

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image of beer cups and jars

Humans

Ancient Egyptian elites used a thick beer porridge in their ceremonies

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CARDIFF, WALES - SEPTEMBER 20: Children wear face masks during a maths lesson at Llanishen High School on September 20, 2021 in Cardiff, Wales. All children aged 12 to 15 across the UK will be offered a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine. Parental consent will be sought for the schools-based vaccination programme. (Photo by Matthew Horwood/Getty Images)

Health

Why has the UK been so slow to vaccinate children against covid-19?

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A Samsung Electronics Co. Galaxy Z Fold 3 smartphone inside the company's Digital Plaza store at the Hyundai Seoul department store in Seoul, South Korea, on Sunday, Oct. 3, 2021. Samsung Electronics will releases its preliminary third quarter earnings on Oct. 8. Photographer: SeongJoon Cho/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Technology

Smartphone app can detect hidden camera lenses from reflections

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Orcas

Life

Orcas are spreading further into the Arctic Ocean as sea ice melts

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Human heart, 3D coloured computed tomography (CT) scan. This is an oblique side view. The heart is a hollow muscular organ that receives and pumps blood from and around the body through the veins and arteries that branch out from its four internal chambers. The external surface of the heart includes the coronary arteries and veins that supply blood to the heart muscle. This scan includes parts of the heart's major veins and arteries, with the aorta running down right.

Health

Rare mutation in Old Order Amish people linked to lower heart disease

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The exoplanet GJ 367b

Space

Extremely dense planet with an enormous iron core has an 8-hour year

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Red Jupiter-like planet

Space

Small Jupiter-like planets hint we need to rethink how gas giants form

We thought young gas giant planets would be large and low-density, but the gas giants around a star that is just 20 million years old don鈥檛 fit this model

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Space

Sun-like stars may go through brighter phases as they grow up

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Environment

Impossible Foods in talks with UK farmers to swap livestock for trees

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Humans

Humans have been relatively short for thousands of years

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Environment

Plastic food packaging gets a bad rap, but does it always deserve it?

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