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The cornea made from pig collagen

Health

Cornea made from pig collagen gives people who were blind 20/20 vision

Twenty people who were legally blind or visually impaired received a transplant of a cornea made from pig collagen. All of them had improved sight, including three who now have 20/20 vision after being legally blind

News
Skull and life reconstruction of Tyrannosaurus rex with original eye socket and eye (left) and hypothetical reconstruction with circular eye socket and enlarged eye (right).

Life

T. rex鈥檚 unusual eye sockets helped it evolve a powerful bite

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Prolonged concentration may cause a compound called glutamate to accumulate in our brain, leading to mental fatigue

Mind

Why thinking hard for several hours can leave you mentally exhausted

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People sitting on parched grass in Greenwich Park, London

Environment

With drought in England more frequent, how can it keep water flowing?

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Woman arranging vegetarian buffet

Health

Vegetarian women have 33 per cent higher risk of breaking a hip

News
A landfill in Buenos Aires, Argentina

Environment

Half of Buenos Aires鈥檚 methane emissions may come from one landfill

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Resources provided mutual aid and responded to five new fires in the Fairbanks area on Monday, July 25th. Two fires are connected to downed trees on powerlines, one involved a structure fire that spread into the wildland, one was unable to be located, and the fifth report resulted in crews monitoring an area for fire activity. Aircraft drops retardant on (600) Old Ridge Trail Fire in Alaska. Photo by James Lily (DOF)

Environment

What Alaska’s record-breaking wildfires mean for the Arctic’s future

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Villarrica lake, Chile in the summer. It is possible to see the lake, the flag of Chile. Sunny day, mountains in the background. Latin America, South America. Volcano, travel.; Shutterstock ID 1967684629; purchase_order: -; job: -; client: -; other: -

Environment

Will Chile’s new constitution make it the first truly green state?

News

Environment

Millimetre-wave beams could give us access to deep geothermal energy

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2JHKK31 Manchester, UK. 19th July, 2022. Aerial photo taken on July 19, 2022 shows the partially empty Woodhead Reservoir near Manchester, Britain. A recent report by the European Commission's Joint Research Center showed that almost half of the European Union's (EU) territory and Britain are at risk of drought in July. Drought conditions and water scarcity are affecting energy production and reducing crop yield. Credit: Jon Super/Xinhua/Alamy Live News

Environment

Climate change will intensify UK droughts so we must take action now

It is time that rainy nations like the UK got serious about conserving water in a warming world 鈥� and that means making behaviour changes, not just relying on technological fixes

News

Health

Langya virus: How serious is the new pathogen discovered in China?

News

Space

Shredded dwarf galaxies may lack dark matter to hold them together

News

Technology

Big Tech and Civil War enthusiasts clash over historic US battlefields

News
Life

Watch sea sponges ‘sneeze’ to remove pollutants, in time-lapse video

Video