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Space

A surprisingly enormous black hole has been found in our galaxy

A black hole 33 times the mass of the sun is the largest stellar black hole ever spotted, and its strange companion star could help explain how it got so huge

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Life

Tiny nematode worms can grow enormous mouths and become cannibals

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Earth

Geoscientists are using telecom ‘dark fibres’ to map Earth’s innards

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Aggregates of the protein alpha-synuclein (brown) and antibodies (green)

Health

Parkinson’s disease progression slowed by antibody infusions

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Earth

Deadly upwellings of cold water pose threat to migratory sharks

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Life

Are panda sex lives being sabotaged by the wrong gut microbes?

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MRI image of the 250th California condor egg to hatch at the San Diego Zoo Safari.

Life

See inside an endangered California condor egg just before it hatches

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Life

‘Peaceful’ male bonobos may actually be more aggressive than chimps

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Environment

Arctic permafrost is now a net source of major greenhouse gases

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Illustration of a computer screen showing words including disinformation and fake

Technology

Chatbots can persuade conspiracy theorists their view might be wrong

After a short conversation with an artificial intelligence, people’s belief in a conspiracy theory dropped by about 20 per cent

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Humans

Untangling the enigmatic origins of the human family’s newest species

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Technology

Water purifier is powered by static electricity from your body

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Health

Embryos pause development when nutrients are low — and now we know how

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Life

A bacterium has evolved into a new cellular structure inside algae

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