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A bizarre skeleton from a Roman grave has bones from eight people
A skeleton from a Gallo-Roman grave in Belgium is made up of bones from at least seven individuals Photograph courtesy…
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COP29: Clashes over cash are set to dominate the climate conference
COP29 will begin on 11 November in Baku, Azerbaijan Aziz Karimov/Getty Images In just a few days’ time, thousands of…
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Viruses may help store vast amounts of carbon in soil
A bacteriophage virus can kill microbes, influencing what happens to the carbon their bodies contain nobeastsofierce Science/Alamy Viruses that infect…
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Bird flu infects a pig in the US, potentially raising risks to humans
Every time H5N1 infects a mammal, it has a chance to develop mutations that make it more transmissible Alamy Stock…
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We’ve seen particles that are massless only in one direction
Mass-shifting particles have finally been spotted LAGUNA DESIGN/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY Strange particles that have mass when moving one direction but…
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Striking image shows well-preserved wreck of Shackleton’s doomed ship
James Blake/Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust Slowly cracking through the dense pack ice of Antarctica’s Weddell Sea is hefty, ice-breaking research…
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One in 20 new Wikipedia pages seem to be written with the help of AI
Just under 5 per cent of the Wikipedia pages in English that have been published since ChatGPT’s release seem to…
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World’s largest tree is also among the oldest living organisms
Some 47,000 trees in Utah’s Fishlake National Forest are in fact a single, ancient organism named Pando George Rose/Getty Images…
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There may be a cosmic speed limit on how fast anything can grow
Have we found a new limit on the universe? kkssr/Shutterstock A newly proposed cosmic speed limit may constrain how fast…
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How to Kill an Asteroid review: Hollywood fantasy vs the real science of saving Earth
A meteor burns up as it nears Earth, unlike asteroids that can hit the surface and wreak havoc James Blake/Falklands Maritime Heritage…
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