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Environment

Great Barrier Reef suffers first mass bleaching under cooling La Niña

Corals have turned white across all four of the reef’s main areas, despite the cooling influence of the La Niña climate phenomenon, in the natural wonder's sixth mass bleaching event of modern times

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Technology

AI can create a computer inside itself to run another AI or play Pong

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Humans

Ancient Britons rapidly evolved to cope with lack of sunlight

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Health

US biofirm plans to make hypoallergenic cats using CRISPR gene editing

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Health

Myocarditis and covid-19 vaccines: How rare is it and who is at risk?

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Humans

Chronic pain in Black people in US may be linked to gene expression

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Life

Armless fossil sheds light on how animals like snakes lost their limbs

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Health

First ever gene therapy gel corrects rare genetic skin condition

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Environment

UK chose to pay back £640,000 to fracking firms after shale gas ban

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Technology

Proposed EU law could force WhatsApp and iMessage to work together

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Health

Male contraceptive pill is safe and effective in tests in mice

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Space

Astronomers still can’t agree on what counts as a planet

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Life

Ostrich necks act as a radiator to control their head temperature

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Technology

Watch a robot peel a banana without crushing it into oblivion

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Health

Drugs seem to help regenerate mouse lungs damaged by cigarette smoke

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Environment

Energy price cap means now might be the best time to green your home

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Health

Pancreatic cancer treated in mice by loading tumour cells with tetanus

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Technology

Stretchy light-emitting plastic could be used in wearable screens

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Life

Humans have spread diseases to other animals many times

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Life

Vampire bats adapted to drinking blood by shedding several genes

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Environment

Rice and maize yields boosted up to 10 per cent by CRISPR gene editing

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Space

Strange waves in the sun are travelling far faster than they should be

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