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Humans

Reconstructed skull gives surprising clues to our enigmatic Ancestor X

The shared ancestor of our species, the Neanderthals and the Denisovans may be far older than we thought 鈥� which could completely change our understanding of humanity's evolution

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Chemistry

Nanoparticles may be the secret ingredient in making ultimate plastics

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One of the cheetah mummies inside the cave it was found in

Life

Cheetahs naturally turned into mummies in caves in Saudi Arabia

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Environment

Climate change is making trees grow larger in the Amazon rainforest

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The carbon-capture-and-storage cement planet in Padeswood, Wales

Environment

Could we have cracked one of the world’s toughest climate problems?

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Health

Huntington鈥檚 disease breakthrough: what to know about the gene therapy

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The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration, who produced the first ever image of our Milky Way black hole released in 2022, has captured a new view of the massive object at the center of our Galaxy: how it looks in polarized light. This is the first time astronomers have been able to measure polarization, a signature of magnetic fields, this close to the edge of Sagittarius A*. This image shows the polarized view of the Milky Way black hole. The lines mark the orientation of polarization, which is related to the magnetic field around the shadow of the black hole. Image Credit: EHT Collaboration

Space

We finally found the hot wind coming out of our black hole

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Spurilla neapolitana. A 'groundbreaking' sea slug discovery has been made - in a UK first. The nudibranch Spurilla neapolitana, typically found in much warmer climates, has been discovered in Cornwall. The colourful sea slug is a usual resident in the Caribbean, Mediterranean, and along the western Atlantic. Until now, its most northerly sighting was in Brest, France, in August 2025.

Life

See the alien-looking sea slug spotted in UK waters for the first time

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Technology

Device with 6100 qubits is a step towards largest quantum computer yet

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Supercentenarian Mar铆a Branyas Morera, pictured with researcher Manel Esteller

Health

World鈥檚 oldest person had a young microbiome and ‘exceptional genome’

杏吧原创s have studied the genetics and lifestyle factors that enabled Mar铆a Branyas Morera, officially the oldest person in the world until she died last year, to reach 117 years old

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Health

What we know, and don’t, about the link between painkillers and autism

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Mind

Mapping the structure of the brain doesn’t fully explain its function

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Life

Dinosaur found with a crocodile in its jaws named as new species

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Physics

Hints of exotic dark matter particles could be hiding in LHC data

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