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Technology

New device can scan your face in 3D from hundreds of metres away

A lidar scanner has a resolution so high it can image ridges and indentations of only 1 millimetre on objects hundreds of metres away – and capture objects as distant as 1 kilometre

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Space

Asteroid 2024 YR4 may hit Earth in 2032 – how worried should we be?

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T64HY9 Guangzhou, China's Guangdong Province. 29th Apr, 2019. Koalas rest on a tree at the Chimelong Safari Park in Guangzhou, south China's Guangdong Province, April 29, 2019. A group of six koalas from Australia were introduced in the Guangzhou Chimelong Safari Park in 2006. After 13 years of introducing and breeding, the number of koalas in the park has reached 60 now. Credit: Liu Dawei/Xinhua/Alamy Live News

Life

Cuddling koalas show unexpected sociable side in surprising video

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Environment

Scientists fear losing essential climate data during Trump upheaval

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The Sun viewed on 29 January 2025 in the extreme ultraviolet range by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) spacecraft. A vast 500,000 mile-wide coronal hole has opened in the sun's atmosphere. The area measures over 62 times the diameter of Earth and is now shooting high-speed solar wind toward Earth. When such solar activity is directed at Earth, the resulting geomagnetic storms can potentially disrupt satellite operations, power grids, navigation systems, and radio communications. There may also be spectacular displays of aurora caused as the Earth's magnetosphere is disturbed by the solar wind. According to spaceweather.com, this wind is estimated to hit Earth by Friday (31 Jan), resulting in G1 geomagnetic storm conditions.

Space

See huge coronal hole that opened up on the surface of the sun

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Humans

Enigmatic people who took over Europe millennia ago came from Ukraine

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Health

New type of brain cell may tell us when to stop eating

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Life

Ancient relative of geese is the earliest known modern bird

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Environment

Indoor cannabis farms in US use more energy than all other agriculture

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Physics

The superconductivity of layered graphene is surprisingly strange

The odd superconductivity found in layered graphene may bring us closer to understanding room-temperature superconductors

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Humans

Volcano-scorched Roman scroll is read for the first time in 2000 years

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Environment

Is cleaner air accelerating global warming more than we expected?

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Environment

Arctic geoengineering project shut down over danger to wildlife

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Space

Grand canyons formed on moon in minutes after colossal asteroid strike

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