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Mind

Babies’ brains ‘tick’ more slowly than ours, which may help them learn

The rhythm of an infant's brain activity seems to put them in constant learning mode, whereas that of an adult may allow them to retrieve conceptual knowledge

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Environment

Atmospheric chaos has sent temperatures soaring in Antarctica

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Health

How fast you age may be controlled by a DNA repair boss in your cells

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Humans

Reconstructed skull gives surprising clues to our enigmatic Ancestor X

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Chemistry

Nanoparticles may be the secret ingredient in making ultimate plastics

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One of the cheetah mummies inside the cave it was found in

Life

Cheetahs naturally turned into mummies in caves in Saudi Arabia

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Environment

Climate change is making trees grow larger in the Amazon rainforest

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The carbon-capture-and-storage cement planet in Padeswood, Wales

Environment

Could we have cracked one of the world’s toughest climate problems?

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Health

Huntington’s disease breakthrough: what to know about the gene therapy

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The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration, who produced the first ever image of our Milky Way black hole released in 2022, has captured a new view of the massive object at the center of our Galaxy: how it looks in polarized light. This is the first time astronomers have been able to measure polarization, a signature of magnetic fields, this close to the edge of Sagittarius A*. This image shows the polarized view of the Milky Way black hole. The lines mark the orientation of polarization, which is related to the magnetic field around the shadow of the black hole. Image Credit: EHT Collaboration

Space

We finally found the hot wind coming out of our black hole

Since the 1970s, astronomers have predicted that Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way, should be sending out hot wind – they have just caught the first glimpse of it

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Life

See the alien-looking sea slug spotted in UK waters for the first time

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Technology

Device with 6100 qubits is a step towards largest quantum computer yet

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Health

World’s oldest person had a young microbiome and ‘exceptional genome’

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Health

What we know, and don’t, about the link between painkillers and autism

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