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The device that delivers electrical stimulation to the spinal cord via pads on the skin

Health

Zapping spinal cord injuries helps restore hand strength and movement

Applying electrical stimulation via pads at the site of the spinal cord injury caused lasting improvements in people’s ability to use their hands

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Mathematics

Incredible maths proof is so complex that almost no one can explain it

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Technology

VR headset can give you 360-degree vision like an owl

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Health

Heatwaves seem to be driving severe asthma flare-ups in children

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Physics

Physicists are grappling with their own reproducibility crisis

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Health

Keto diet may accelerate organ ageing

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Bird specimen at NHM Tring
Life

Auks, Darwin’s finches and a mummified falcon: Inside NHM bird archive

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The common spotted-orchid (Dactylorhiza fuchsii)

Life

Orchids feed their young through underground fungal connections

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Health

Food ‘addiction’ should be treated like drug abuse, claim doctors

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Humans

Nomads thrived in Greece after the collapse of the Roman Empire

Analysis of pollen in sediment cores from a large lake in Greece shows that nomadic livestock herders took over the region after the collapse of the Western Roman Empire

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Environment

Tech firms claim nuclear will solve AI’s power needs – they’re wrong

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Chemistry

Fragile quantum entanglement may survive chaos of chemical reactions

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Technology

AI noise-cancelling headphones let you focus on just one voice

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Health

Some brain injury patients would recover if life support weren’t ended

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