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Beating cancer: How viruses are being used to infect and kill tumours

Health

Beating cancer: How viruses are being used to infect and kill tumours

We’ve long known that viruses can target cancers in our bodies. Now, thanks to gene editing, we’re using them as tumour search and destroy agents – and getting our immune systems to join the fight too

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A wind turbine farm off the coast of Yorkshire, UK

Technology

Renewables overtook fossil fuels in UK electricity mix for first time

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Maggie Aderin-Pocock on space travel and humanity's future

Space

Maggie Aderin-Pocock on space travel and humanity's future

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We may have spotted an interstellar comet flying towards Earth

Space

We may have spotted an interstellar comet flying towards Earth

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The team found DNA (red) and an enzyme (green) on the surface of human gallstones (yellow)

Health

Sticky nets of DNA from immune cells may be to blame for gallstones

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Technology

Outshining fossil fuel: Your guide to the revolution in solar energy

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Coal fired power station silhouette at sunset, Pocerady, Czech republic

Environment

Coal power in Europe has had its biggest ever decline

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Solar panels on a roof

Environment

The UK is now using AI to predict solar power and lower energy bills

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Tiny pebbles may be the reason most planets spin in the same direction

Space

Tiny pebbles may be the reason most planets spin in the same direction

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Immunotherapy may help treat some resistant bowel cancers

Health

Immunotherapy may help treat some resistant bowel cancers

A small study of drug-resistant bowel cancers suggests that it might be possible to treat these tumours using immunotherapy drugs

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Environment

Cleaning up China's dirty air would give solar energy a huge boost

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Space

A total solar eclipse just passed over Chile and Argentina

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Space

Interstellar object 'Oumuamua almost definitely not aliens, we think

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Space

How Mercury and Venus can guide our hunt for alien life on exoplanets

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