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Earth

Giant boulder on clifftop in Tonga was carried by a 50-metre-high wave

A huge tsunami hit a cliff in Tonga 7000 years ago and carried a 1200-tonne boulder 200 metres inland, making it the biggest wave-lifted boulder ever found on a cliff

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Environment

Honeybees are getting confused by electric pollution from power lines

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Health

Extra cancer screening could help pick up early cases in dense breasts

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Health

Why taping your mouth shut at night probably isn’t a good idea

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Caption The ICEPIC sampling tool drilling into the ice at sampling site A of the Matanuska Glacier, AK, field trial. Credit NASA/JPL-Caltech

Technology

See the robot that may one day search for life on Jupiter’s icy moon

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Health

Vagus nerve stimulation shows promise for spinal cord injury recovery

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Life

The first teeth were sensory organs on the skin of ancient fish

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Planet in a double star system

Space

Weird planet is orbiting backwards between two stars

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Health

West Nile virus detected in mosquitoes in the UK for the first time

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An artist impression of Earth quasi-satellite Kamo`oalewa near the Earth-Moon system. (Image credit: Addy Graham/University of Arizona)

Space

China is readying a mission to two rocky bodies in our solar system

China's ambitious Tianwen-2 mission will soon be heading to two extremely different space rocks, and should provide vital data to help us understand the nature of asteroids and comets

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Environment

Tropical forest loss doubled in 2024 as wildfires rocketed

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Life

Supergiant crustaceans could live across half the deep-sea floor

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Technology

How the US military wants to use the world’s largest aircraft

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Space

Earliest galaxy ever seen offers glimpse of the nascent universe

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