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Giant rats trained to sniff out illegal wildlife trade

African giant pouched rats proved adept at detecting four commonly trafficked products derived from endangered species including rhino horn and elephant ivory

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Life

The cactus family’s surprising evolutionary journey

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Space

Strange binary star system has three Earth-sized exoplanets

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Health

Bird flu virus that infected a person in Missouri had a rare mutation

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Physics

Light has been seen leaving an atom cloud before it entered

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The crew will attempt the first commercial spacewalk with SpaceX-designed extravehicular activity suits, upgraded from the current intravehicular suit.

Space

Current laws cannot protect civilians in space if something goes wrong

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Technology

Tiny nuclear-powered battery could work for decades in space or at sea

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Illustration of the giant black hole jets known as Porphyrion

Space

Black hole’s jets are so huge that they may shake up cosmology

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Physics

Freak waves may be more dangerous than we thought possible

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Technology

‘Shazam for whales’ uses AI to track sounds heard in Mariana Trench

An artificial intelligence model that can identify the calls of eight whale species is helping researchers track the elusive whale behind a perplexing sound in the Pacific

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Space

Venus could be rocked by thousands of quakes every year

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Life

Air jacket helps ‘scuba-diving’ lizards stay underwater for longer

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Environment

People hugely underestimate the carbon footprints of the 1 per cent

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Technology

Quantum computers teleport and store energy harvested from empty space

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