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AI can use tourist photos to help track Antarctica’s penguins

Scientists used AI to transform tourist photos into a 3D digital map of Antarctic penguin colonies – even as researchers debate whether to harness or discourage tourism in this remote region

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A fossil of the extinct tadpole species Notobatrachus degiustoi in Santa Cruz Province, Argentina

Life

Oldest tadpole fossil known to science dates back 161 million years

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Health

Cancer atlas reveals how tumours evolve inside the body

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Physics

Quantum batteries could give off more energy than they store

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BRAZIL - MAY 05: The Trans-Amazonian highway, Amazonas State, Brazil. (Photo by DeAgostini/Getty Images)

Environment

The Amazon is teetering on the edge of a climate tipping point

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Space

Astronauts could hitch a ride on asteroids to get to Venus or Mars

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Health

One course of antibiotics can change your gut microbiome for years

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Technology

AI helps driverless cars predict how unseen pedestrians may move

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Solar panels on the North Barren Mountain in Zhangjiakou, Hebei province, China

Environment

Clean energy rollout means China’s emissions may have peaked

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Physics

Quantum ‘Schrödinger’s cat’ survives for a stunning 23 minutes

A typically fragile quantum superposition has been made to last exceptionally long, and could eventually be used as a probe for discovering new physics

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Health

Flu viruses have evolved proteins that let them break through mucus

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Environment

The world is falling far short of its goal to halt biodiversity loss

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Mind

Meditation seems to improve our empathy for strangers

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Life

Weird microbes could help rewrite the origin of multicellular life

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