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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.

Boa constrictor

Life

Boa constrictors move ribs to avoid suffocating when they kill prey

The boa constrictor has developed a way to control air movement in its lungs using ribs in the lower part of its body, so it can breathe while it squeezes the life out of its prey

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Optical equipment

Physics

A gas made from light becomes easier to compress as you squash it

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Maize or sweetcorn

Environment

Rice and maize yields boosted up to 10 per cent by CRISPR gene editing

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Excavator and dumper truck. Aerial view of loading sand into a truck. A heavy machinery - excavator and truck are working in the sand quarry.

Environment

We are running out of sand and global demand could soar 45% by 2060

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Forest

Environment

World would be 1掳C warmer without cooling effect of tropical forests

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An artistic impression of the high-frequency retrograde (HFR) vorticity waves. These waves appear as swirling motions near the equator of the Sun. The rotation in the north is always anti-symmetric to the rotation in the southern hemisphere. These mysterious waves move in the opposite direction to the sun's rotation, which is to the right, three times faster then what is allowed by hydrodynamics alone.

Space

Strange waves in the sun are travelling far faster than they should be

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Electric car plugged in and changing on urban city street

Environment

Fix the Planet newsletter: Solving charging anxiety for electric cars

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Robot peeling a banana
Technology

Finally, a robot that can peel a banana without smushing it to bits

Video

Technology

Watch a robot peel a banana without crushing it into oblivion

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Diseased lung scan

Health

Drugs seem to help regenerate mouse lungs damaged by cigarette smoke

Two clinically available drugs have shown promise in restoring the regenerative capacity of mouse lung cells, suggesting they could be used to treat chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

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Health

Pancreatic cancer treated in mice by loading tumour cells with tetanus

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Environment

Russian tanks are devastating an idyllic Ukrainian wetland wilderness

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Comment

We must recognise science鈥檚 unsung global pioneers to alter its future

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Health

The covid-19 pandemic isn’t over 鈥� and it won’t end any time soon

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