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Galapagos tortoise thought extinct for 100 years has been found alive
A single female of the Fernandina Island tortoise species that was thought to be extinct for a century has been…
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Better Face Masks Are Possible: Here Are Some Winning Designs
High-quality masks called respirators, such as N95s and KN95s, offer strong protection against the spread of COVID-19. But when it…
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Pancreatic cancer vaccine: What to know about early promising results
A personalised mRNA vaccine for pancreatic cancer has produced promising results in a small initial trial involving people whose cancers…
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James Webb Space Telescope Set to Study Two Strange Super-Earths
The James Webb Space Telescope plans to explore strange, new rocky worlds in unprecedented detail. The telescope’s scientific consortium has…
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Sex Life of One of Earth’s Earliest Animals Exposed
Trilobites are perhaps the most successful group of animals ever to live. Named for their distinctive three-lobed body, these armored,…
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Farmers in England will bury burnt wood in fields to capture CO2
A large trial is underway to see how much CO2 can be removed from the atmosphere by burying a charcoal-like…
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Twitter and the dangers of the US myth of free speech
Silicon Valley media entrepreneurs might talk about free speech, but it is a fallacy that we should be able to…
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Science Must Not Be Used To Foster White Supremacy
The white supremacist who drove 200 miles to a Buffalo, N.Y., supermarket and opened fire, killing 10 people, had posted…
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Is DeepMind’s Gato AI really a human-level intelligence breakthrough?
By Matthew Sparkes DeepMind’s Gato may or may not be a major breakthrough for AI DeepMind DeepMind has released what…
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Bottlenose dolphins can identify friends by tasting their urine
We already knew that bottlenose dolphins recognise each other through their signature whistles, but now it seems the taste of…
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