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Sign on motorway warning of severe weather

Environment

Temperature hits 40掳C on the UK’s hottest day on record

Coningsby in Lincolnshire has provisionally recorded a temperature of 40.3掳C, an event that would be extremely unlikely without climate change, and scientists warn that heatwaves will only get worse

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An elephant using its trunk to pick up a banana

Life

Elephant trunks are very dexterous because they are so wrinkly

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Life

Watch the moment bison were released into the UK

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A person takes samples from Marseille sewage water near a retirement home in France to detect covid-19 traces in December 2020

Health

Sewage surveillance spots new covid-19 variants as effectively as PCRs

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Morti the robot

Technology

A four-legged robot can learn to walk in an hour like a newborn foal

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Two beavers in water

Life

Beavers to be legally protected from harm in England from October

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Red galaxy

Space

Red smudge seen by JWST could unlock chemistry of the early universe

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Bison walking out of a pen

Environment

Wild bison released in UK for first time as part of rewilding efforts

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Space

Astronomers are already unscrambling the warped galaxies seen by JWST

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Life

Antarctic bacteria reveal an evolutionary limit to dealing with heat

Some bacteria living in the Southern Ocean can't adapt to temperatures 2掳C higher than what they can usually survive, and other organisms could face similar limits adapting to higher temperatures

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Health

How to cut your risk of catching the BA.4 and BA.5 covid subvariants

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Technology

Robot made of sticky tape and metal powder could crawl on your organs

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Humans

Prehistoric dart-throwing atlatl weapon even more deadly than thought

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Environment

UK prepares for health emergency with 50 per cent chance of 40掳C heat

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