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Balls of lung cells grown from amniotic fluid. The red indicates lung stem cells

Health

Organoids made from uterus fluid may help treat fetuses before birth

Fetal cells retrieved from fluid in the uterus can now be turned into balls of cells called organoids, which could help diagnose and treat fetuses with a serious lung condition

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Technology

Google launches $5m prize to find actual uses for quantum computers

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Technology

Smart glasses use sonar to work out where you’re looking

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Mathematics

These 7 mathematical facts will blow your mind

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Life

Orca seen hunting great white shark in first recorded solo kill

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Chemistry

AI could help replicate smells in danger of being lost to history

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Health

Persistent pain after a UTI may be due to an overgrowth of nerve cells

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Inside the UKs the Joint European Torus
Physics

Future of fusion: How the UK’s JET reactor paved the way for ITER

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cave diver Klaus Thymann photographs manatees in a flooded cave system on the Yucatán peninsula
Environment

Manatees discovered in pristine but threatened underwater cave habitat

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Space

Why space dust is key to everything from star birth to life on Earth

Cosmic dust grains may be small, but they are mighty – it turns out dust is crucial to just about every process that occurs in space

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Mind

Fear of predators may have helped us conceptualise the idea of zero

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Technology

Elon Musk asks court to decide if GPT-4 has human-level intelligence

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Physics

UK spurns European invitation to join ITER nuclear fusion project

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Environment

Sinking plankton poo could help store more carbon in the ocean

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