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Environment

UK faces rising costs for flood damage even with modest warming

With 1.8掳C of warming, the average yearly cost of flood damage in the UK is predicted to increase by 4 per cent, but some parts of the country will see bigger rises

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Mother with baby, among others, Lesser Dog-faced Fruit Bat (Cyneropterus brachyotis). Also called Short-nosed or Common Fruit Bat. Animals hanging in the roof. Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve, Singapore.

Life

Females are not smaller than males in most mammal species

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Earth

Gold hydrogen: Is there a huge reserve of clean fuel in Earth’s crust?

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Space

How to understand wormholes and their weird quantum effects

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Antineutrinos collide with protons inside the detector which creates positrons that move through water followed by a blue glow.

Physics

Antimatter neutrinos detected from a nuclear reactor 240 km away

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Mind

Why I鈥檓 teaching balls of human brain cells to play video games

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Environment

What is the UN high seas treaty and will it save the world鈥檚 oceans?

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The magnificent spiral galaxy M99 fills the frame in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. M99 ??? which lies roughly 42 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Coma Berenices ??? is a ???grand design??? spiral galaxy, so-called because of the well-defined, prominent spiral arms visible in this image. M99 was captured by Hubble???s Wide Field Camera 3 on two separate occasions, helping astronomers study two entirely different astronomical phenomena.?? The first set of observations aimed to explore a gap between two different varieties of cosmic explosions; novae and supernovae. Novae, which are caused by the interactions between white dwarfs and larger stars in binary systems, are far less bright than the supernovae which mark the catastrophically violent deaths of massive stars. However, current astronomical theories predict that sudden, fleeting events could occur that shine with brightnesses between those of novae and supernovae. Despite being described by astronomers as being shrouded in mystery and controversy, just such an event was observed in M99. Astronomers turned to Hubble???s keen vision to take a closer look and precisely locate the fading source. The second set of observations were part of a large Hubble project which aims to chart the connections between young stars and the clouds of cold gas from which they form. Hubble inspected 38 nearby galaxies, identifying clusters of hot, young stars. These galaxies were also observed by the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), a colossal radio telescope consisting of 66 individual dishes perched high in the Chilean Andes. The combination of Hubble???s observations of young stars and ALMA???s insight into clouds of cold gas will allow astronomers to delve into the details of star formation, and paves the way for future science with the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope.??

Space

Galaxies鈥� missing matter may be found 鈥� but now there鈥檚 too much of it

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A flying drone can now be controlled via ChatGPT

Technology

Microsoft uses ChatGPT AI to control flying drones and robot arms

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HEATA press image

Technology

Heating water with computer servers could save UK homes 拢150 a year

Data centres often waste the heat generated by servers, but UK firm Heata intends to bring servers into people's homes where the waste energy can be used to heat up people's hot water for showers

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Physics

Quantum computers that use ‘cat qubits’ may make fewer errors

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Technology

Wooden robot hand can lift objects and withstand high temperatures

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Life

There may be just 800 of these endangered eagles left in the wild

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Health

Lion infected with covid-19 probably passed it on to two zoo workers

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