Science
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Brain implant lets man with paralysis fly a virtual drone by thought
A virtual drone was piloted through an obstacle course by a person imagining moving their fingers Willsey et al. A…
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Why sleep quality is so important – and so difficult to measure
Steven Puetzer/Getty Images How did you sleep last night? Your response might depend on how long you were in bed,…
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Do we actually know what a healthy gut microbiome looks like?
Our guts are home to trillions of bacteria ARTUR PLAWGO/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY Analysing one’s stools was once a niche interest.…
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Ultra-thin material creates a magnetic mystery
Bismuth crystals reflect light in all colours of the rainbow Oliver Berg/dpa/Alamy Ultra-thin flakes of bismuth display mysterious magnetic properties…
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Fire at world’s largest battery facility is a clean energy setback
Smoke rises during a fire at Vistra Energy’s Moss Landing battery storage facility in California on 17 January Bloomberg /…
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The Shape of Things Unseen review: A rich guide to the science of imagination also digs into art
Maarten Wouters/Getty Images The Shape of Things UnseenAdam Zeman (Bloomsbury Circus) Just imagine! No, seriously, just imagine: an apple, perhaps,…
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Extraordinary images reveal the mysteries of Mars
Dingo gap in Gale crater NASA/JPL-CALTECH/MSSS From H. G. Wells’s alien invaders in The War of the Worlds to The…
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2024 may have been the rainiest – as well as hottest – year on record
Flooding in Atlanta, Georgia, in September 2024 S LESSER/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock In 2024, Earth received about 2.9 millimetres of rain per day.…
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Tiny insect-like robot can flip, loop and hover for up to 15 minutes
A tiny drone powered by soft muscle-like actuators Kevin Chen An insect-inspired robot that only weighs as much as a…
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Rabbits may eat their own teeth to boost their calcium intake
A handful of mammals, including rabbits, have teeth that grow throughout their lives Thurid_with_th/Shutterstock Rabbits’ teeth grow continuously, a process…
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