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Humans

Ancient humans lived inside a lava tube in the Arabian desert

Underground tunnels created by lava flows provided humans with shelter for thousands of years beneath the hot desert landscape of Saudi Arabia

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Health

Why we need to change the way we think about exhaustion

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2A1B24J Global Climate Strike London

Environment

Old-fashioned pessimism might actually help us fight climate change

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Health

Skin-deep wounds can damage gut health in mice

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Technology

Intel reveals world’s biggest ‘brain-inspired’ neuromorphic computer

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Aerial view of different coloured fields near the Werribee river in New South Wales, Australia

Life

Turning plants blue with gene editing could make robot weeding easier

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Life

A cicada double brood is coming – it’s less rare than you think

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Environment

Dusting farms with waste concrete could boost yields and lock up CO2

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Life

Colonies of single-celled creatures could explain how embryos evolved

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Life

Sleeping bumblebees can survive underwater for a week

A serendipitous lab accident revealed that hibernating bumblebee queens can make it through days of flooding, revealing that they are less vulnerable to extreme weather than previously thought

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Life

Starfish have hundreds of feet but no brain – here’s how they move

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Environment

Our plans to tackle climate change with carbon storage don’t add up

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Space

How to destroy a black hole

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Technology

Watch a swarm of cyborg cockroaches controlled by computers

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