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Environment

Trump-backed Stargate Project could strain the US energy grid

The Stargate Project aims to build huge data centres for AI development – but the details remain murky, and it is still unclear exactly how this might impact the energy future of the US

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Life

Giant sloths lived alongside humans in South America for millennia

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Life

Dinosaurs may have first evolved in the Sahara and Amazon rainforest

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An orchid uses a finger-like appendage to pollinate itself

Life

An orchid uses a finger-like appendage to pollinate itself

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Earth

Dark oxygen: New deep sea expedition to explore mysterious discovery

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Caption This image from NASA?s James Webb Space Telescope shows a portion of the Leo P dwarf galaxy (stars at lower right represented in blue). Leo P is a star-forming galaxy located about 5 million light-years away in the constellation Leo. A team of scientists collected data from about 15,000 stars in Leo P to deduce its star formation history. They determined that it went through three phases: an initial burst of star formation, a ?pause? that lasted several billion years, and then a new round of star formation that is still continuing. The image from Webb?s NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) combines infrared light at wavelengths of 0.9 microns (represented in blue), 1.5 microns (green), and 2.77 microns (red). The stars in Leo P appear blue in comparison to the background galaxies for several reasons. Young, massive stars that are common in star-forming galaxies are predominantly blue. Leo P also is extremely lacking in elements heavier than hydrogen and helium, and the resulting ?metal-poor? stars tend to be bluer than Sun-like stars. A bubble-like structure at bottom center is a region of ionized hydrogen surrounding a hot, massive O-type star. Credits Image NASA, ESA, CSA, Kristen McQuinn (STScI) Image Processing Joseph DePasquale (STScI)

Space

James Webb captures a beautiful smattering of blue stars

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Physics

Extremely cold atoms can selectively defy entropy

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Physics

Twisted crystals show hints of a new kind of superconductivity

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Earth

Towering structures in Earth’s depths may be billions of years old

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Health

Thinking a drug is a knockoff generic can cause worse side effects

People seem to assume that expensive branded drugs will be less likely to cause them harm than their generic counterparts, which manifests via the "nocebo effect"

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Environment

The US is leaving the Paris Agreement – what happens next?

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Health

Trump's exit from World Health Organization could backfire on the US

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Environment

Sicily's hills were 40 metres below water during Earth's megaflood

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Space

An alien planet has winds that blow at 33,000 kilometres per hour

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