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Nepal and Northern India are not overdue for a huge earthquake

Many researchers thought that earthquakes in the Himalayas recur at regular intervals – but an analysis of sediment cores has shown they are largely random, and the region has seen far more than we previously realised

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Humans

Ancient Peruvian civilisation grew mighty by harvesting guano

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Comet C/2024 E1 Taken by Ian Griffin on February 5, 2026 @ Middlemarch, New Zealand Details: A lovely comet is gracing the southern sky. This evening I managed to get a set of 26x90 second exposures of it before moonlight interfered. The comet is sweeping through the southern constellation of Grus, which contains many beautiful galaxies. Photographer's website: https://www.instagram.com/portobellopictures/

Space

See beautiful comet as it nears its closest approach to Earth

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Humans

The surprising origins of Britain's Bronze Age immigrants revealed

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Health

First ever inhalable gene therapy for cancer gets fast-tracked by FDA

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Environment

This state’s power prices are plummeting as it nears 100% renewables

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Life

Newborn marsupials seen crawling to mother's pouch for the first time

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Humans

Which humans first made tools or art – and how do we know?

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Time crystals could be used to build accurate quantum clocks

Physics

Time crystals could be used to build accurate quantum clocks

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Environment

Old EV batteries could meet most of China's energy storage needs

Electric vehicle batteries are typically retired once they reach about 80 per cent of their original capacity, but they could be repurposed in electricity grids to balance out slumps in renewable generation

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Environment

Why 1.5°C failed and setting a new limit would make things worse

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Humans

Is this carved rock an ancient Roman board game?

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Space

Gravitational wave signal proves Einstein was right about relativity

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Health

'Hidden' group of gut bacteria may be essential to good health

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