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Dinosaurs may have run like emus by keeping one foot on the ground

It seems to be more energy efficient for emus to keep one foot on the ground when running at a moderate pace, and the same may have been true for dinosaurs

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Environment

Geoengineering is now essential to saving the Arctic’s ice

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Environment

Jet stream shifts are linked to fires, failed harvests and the plague

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Chemistry

Chemists discovered the first new chemical bond in more than a decade

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Technology

AIs get worse at answering simple questions as they get bigger

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Humans

World’s oldest cheese found on 3500-year-old Chinese mummies

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Technology

Smart TVs take snapshots of what you watch multiple times per second

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The hormone and neurotransmitter dopamine interacting with its receptor

Health

Pain relief from the placebo effect may not actually involve dopamine

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Life

Axolotls seem to pause their biological clocks and stop ageing

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Environment

Are superconducting power lines the key to a cleaner grid?

High-temperature superconducting cables that could transform the power grid may be increasingly viable, thanks to a side effect of fusion energy research and new ways to cool the wires

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Humans

AI discovers hundreds of ancient Nazca drawings in Peruvian desert

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Health

Children with cancer may benefit from having a cat or dog ‘pen pal’

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Life

Octopuses and fish hunt as a team to catch more prey

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Environment

Forests became less diverse when ancient people started herding pigs

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