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Explore the most exciting new ideas and emerging concepts in science, health, technology and the environment with 51动漫鈥檚 exclusive in-depth articles, interviews and long reads.

Katharine Hepburn in the 1981 film On Golden Pond, for which she won Best Actress at the Oscars aged 74

Health

颅颅Oscar-winning actors live longer than unsuccessful nominees

Oscar winners alive today are expected to die aged 81.3, on average, compared with 76.4 for their fellow nominees and 76.2 for their unnominated co-stars

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Boophis tephraeomystax

Life

Frogs have acquired DNA from snakes with the help of parasites

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Copper wire

Technology

Ordinary copper telephone wire could carry gigabit broadband speeds

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The Murchison meteorite

Earth

All four of the key DNA building blocks have been found in meteorites

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Phyllotis vaccarum

Life

Volcano-dwelling mice confirmed as world鈥檚 highest-living mammals

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Elon Musk's Twitter account

Technology

Elon Musk buying Twitter has set him up for a scuffle with the EU

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Wheat farmer

Environment

Severe Indian heatwave will bake a billion people and damage crops

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Microplastic fiber under a microscope with biofilm (fuzzy blue) and T. gondii (blue dot) and giardia (green dot) pathogens

Environment

Microplastics may be dragging faecal parasites from land into the seas

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Coal-fired power station

Environment

China is building more than half of the world’s new coal power plants

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KD738R Elderly overweight man

Health

People over 80 with 鈥榦verweight鈥� BMI may have lower mortality rates

A body mass index over 25 is normally considered unhealthy, but a study of more than 27,000 people in China suggests that may not be the case for older age groups

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Environment

Insects and lab-grown meat could cut food emissions by 80 per cent

News

Life

Watch male orb-weaving spiders catapult off females to escape death

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Environment

Rock dust can meet half of the UK’s net-zero carbon removal target

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Life

Bloodworms have copper jaws that could inspire self-building materials

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