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Space

Oddball star could be home to long-sought superheavy elements

One of the most chemically strange stars we know could chart a path to the so-called "island of stability", where massive yet relatively stable atoms exist

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Medical image of the airways in a pair of lungs

Technology

Artificial lungs in a backpack may free people with lung failure

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Semipalatinsk nuclear test site in Kazakhstan

Health

Exposed: Soviet cover-up of nuclear fallout worse than Chernobyl

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What makes a good surgeon? Video analysis rates suturing skills

Technology

What makes a good surgeon? Video analysis rates suturing skills

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Boy crying

Technology

Robot that shows pain could teach doctors to recognise it better

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Earth

Green thinking in the era of Trump

Culture

A person in a wheelchair looks towards a screen with a grid on it while a researcher looks on

Technology

Mind-reading typing tool for paralysed people is fastest yet

News

A smartphone held up in front of a person gazin to the right, showing the GazeSpeak app on the phone screen

Technology

Microsoft app helps people with ALS speak using just their eyes

News

A nurse using the SEND medical app that sends early warning alerts based on patients' vital signs

Technology

NHS to start prescribing health apps that help manage conditions

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Rahim Esfandyarpour

Technology

Printed ‘lab on a chip’ costs a penny and catches disease early

The cheap diagnostic kit is made using a regular inkjet printer and could catch signs of malaria, tuberculosis and cancer earlier in the developing world

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Technology

Blind people ‘see’ microscope images using touch-feedback device

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Technology

Completely paralysed people use thoughts to say they are happy

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Technology

Recycled eggshells can be used for next-gen data storage

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Technology

How Trump’s erratic nuclear posture could spark a new arms race

Insight

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