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Technology

Electric cars now last as long as petrol and diesel counterparts

Records from UK vehicle safety tests show that the average lifespan of an electric vehicle is 18 years, and the reliability is still improving considerably from year to year

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Environment

Trump-backed Stargate Project could strain the US energy grid

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Life

Giant sloths lived alongside humans in South America for millennia

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Life

Dinosaurs may have first evolved in the Sahara and Amazon rainforest

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Life

An orchid uses a finger-like appendage to pollinate itself

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Earth

Dark oxygen: New deep sea expedition to explore mysterious discovery

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Caption This image from NASA?s James Webb Space Telescope shows a portion of the Leo P dwarf galaxy (stars at lower right represented in blue). Leo P is a star-forming galaxy located about 5 million light-years away in the constellation Leo. A team of scientists collected data from about 15,000 stars in Leo P to deduce its star formation history. They determined that it went through three phases: an initial burst of star formation, a ?pause? that lasted several billion years, and then a new round of star formation that is still continuing. The image from Webb?s NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) combines infrared light at wavelengths of 0.9 microns (represented in blue), 1.5 microns (green), and 2.77 microns (red). The stars in Leo P appear blue in comparison to the background galaxies for several reasons. Young, massive stars that are common in star-forming galaxies are predominantly blue. Leo P also is extremely lacking in elements heavier than hydrogen and helium, and the resulting ?metal-poor? stars tend to be bluer than Sun-like stars. A bubble-like structure at bottom center is a region of ionized hydrogen surrounding a hot, massive O-type star. Credits Image NASA, ESA, CSA, Kristen McQuinn (STScI) Image Processing Joseph DePasquale (STScI)

Space

James Webb captures a beautiful smattering of blue stars

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Physics

Extremely cold atoms can selectively defy entropy

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Physics

Twisted crystals show hints of a new kind of superconductivity

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Earth

Towering structures in Earth’s depths may be billions of years old

New measurements suggest mysterious continent-sized masses in our planet’s lower mantle may be extremely stable features

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Health

Thinking a drug is a knockoff generic can cause worse side effects

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Environment

The US is leaving the Paris Agreement – what happens next?

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Health

Trump’s exit from World Health Organization could backfire on the US

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Environment

Sicily’s hills were 40 metres below water during Earth’s megaflood

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