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honeybee

Environment

Waggle dances show city bees have shorter commutes than country bees

A study of waggle dances shows honeybees in London fly shorter distances to reach flowers than the honeybees living in the UK countryside

border collie

Life

Gifted dogs can learn 12 words in a week and remember them for months

Pendraig reconstruction

Life

Chicken-sized dinosaur found in Wales is UK’s earliest known theropod

Chameleon diamond

Physics

Chameleon diamonds change colour when chilled in liquid nitrogen

micro organisms

Technology

Biological computer made from single-celled organisms can crunch data

Syukuro Manabe, Klaus Hasselmann and Giorgio Parisi

Physics

Physics Nobel awarded for work on chaotic systems such as the climate

Close up of the Le Base du Colosse des Naxiens ("The Base of the Colossus of the Naxians") sign on the island of Delos, Greece, an archaeological site near Mykonos in the Aegean Sea.; Shutterstock ID 1527968039; purchase_order: -; job: -; client: -; other: -

Earth

Marble of ancient Greek statue traced to its likely origin

Auckland's strict lockdown will start to ease on 6 October

Health

Why is New Zealand seemingly giving up on its zero-covid strategy?

A phone with an error message

Technology

Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram back online after global outage

Close-up of gay couple hands on table

Health

Sexual desire may be triggered by gentle touch sensors in your skin

Nerve endings in your skin that detect gentle touch may also be responsible for triggering sexual desire

Space

Weird white dwarf that is colder than it should be defies explanation

Environment

People in cities have faced huge increase in heat exposure since 1983

Humans

People reached remote Atlantic islands 700 years earlier than thought

Space

Blue Origin is taking Star Trek鈥檚 William Shatner to space for real