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Extra cancer screening could help pick up early cases in dense breasts
Dense breast tissue and tumours appear similar on scans, which can make the latter hard to identify Gorodenkoff/Shutterstock If you…
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How buried cables are revealing Earth’s interior in incredible detail
The globe is criss-crossed by unused fibre-optic cables. Now, researchers are using them to defend against earthquakes and produce an…
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Weird planet is orbiting backwards between two stars
We have confirmation that a strange plant is orbiting between two stars Aaron Alien/Shutterstock After years of observation, researchers finally…
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Why the climate crown is ready for China to take – if it wants to
Noel Celis/AFP via Getty Images Nature abhors a vacuum, and so, too, does geopolitics. With the US under Donald Trump…
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The first teeth were sensory organs on the skin of ancient fish
CT scan of the front of a skate, showing the hard, tooth-like denticles (orange) on its skin Yara Haridy Teeth…
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Why taping your mouth shut at night probably isn’t a good idea
Some social media videos recommend taping your mouth shut entirely to improve sleep, while others advise only partly closing it…
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Vagus nerve stimulation shows promise for spinal cord injury recovery
Targeting the vagus nerve has shown potential in treating a range of health conditions Science Photo Library/Alamy Pairing targeted vagus…
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West Nile virus detected in mosquitoes in the UK for the first time
Fragments of the virus have been found in Aedes vexans mosquitoes in Nottinghamshire, UK imv/iStockphoto/Getty Images West Nile virus, a…
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Supergiant crustaceans could live across half the deep-sea floor
Alicella gigantea, the world’s largest amphipod, may be more common than we had thought Maroni et al./Royal Society Open Science…
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Tianwen-2: China is readying a mission to two rocky bodies in our solar system
An artist’s impression of Earth’s quasi-satellite Kamo`oalewa, the first destination of the Tianwen-2 mission Addy Graham/University of Arizona Final preparations…
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