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Magic mushrooms found in Africa are a species new to science

A fungus named Psilocybe ochraceocentrata is the closest relative of a widely cultivated psychedelic mushroom, giving clues to their evolutionary origins

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Environment

Global forecast for 2025 sees temperatures falling back below 1.5°C

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Health

Bowel cancer is rising in younger people around the world

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Parker Solar Probe will soon go deeper into the sun than ever before

Space

Parker Solar Probe will soon go deeper into the sun than ever before

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Technology

Another record has been set for the most entangled logical qubits

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A fluffy longhorn beetle

Life

A festival of stunning animal pictures from 2024

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A man makes his way at a hill as African dust from the desert of Sahara covers the city of Athens, Greece, April 23, 2024. REUTERS/Louisa Gouliamaki TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY - RC2FC7ATEP85

Environment

Climate chaos accelerated in 2024 as we hit 1.5°C for the first time

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Health

2024 saw the first living people to receive pig kidney transplants

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Noland Arbaugh by John Francis Peters, 2024

Technology

Elon Musk's brain-implant firm Neuralink did its first tests in 2024

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https://x.com/alfrekjv/status/1789814301613588543 Sinaloa, Mexico, 2024

Space

Dazzling auroras lit up the skies in 2024 and we may see more in 2025

The northern lights, or aurora borealis, came strangely far south this year and there may be more of the same while the sun is experiencing a solar maximum

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Earth

The Anthropocene was officially spurned in 2024, but the idea lives on

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Life

Bioluminescent Christmas tree glows with festive cheer

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Technology

The shine began to wear off AI in 2024 as advances slowed down

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Space

Earth may have had its water delivered by a vast cloud of vapour

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