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From the world's most famous predator to the world's rarest porpoise, this week's science stretches across hundreds of millions of years and the full sweep of the natural world. We have a dinosaur that took its time growing up, planets that spin faster than they should, and a clever trick for the birds that seem … Continue reading This Week in Science: Slow-Growing Giants, Defiant Flocks and a Digital Lifeline
From an octopus that learns to read a mirror to a seven-hour hunt for alien signals, this week's science spans the deep ocean, the human body and the edge of the Solar System. Here are six discoveries that show how researchers keep finding the unexpected in places we thought we understood. Read on for the … Continue reading This Week in Science: Octopus Minds, Hidden Quantum Worlds and a Search for Aliens
From the deep waters of the Galápagos to the violent storms of Jupiter, this week's science has been all about surprises. We dive 6,000 feet to meet a brand-new species, peer inside the skull of a 380-million-year-old fish, watch an Antarctic glacier collapse at record speed, and find out what beetroot juice has to do … Continue reading This Week in Science: Tiny Blue Octopuses, Jupiter’s Mega-Bolts and a Glacier on the Move
Six standout science stories from this week: Cambridge powers an "impossible" LED, a kimchi microbe sweeps nanoplastics from the gut, NASA's Roman telescope prepares to weigh hidden neutron stars, a plant returns from extinction in the Australian outback, a remarkable stegosaur skull rewrites dinosaur evolution, and scientists explain why humans are so overwhelmingly right-handed.
From a borrowed gene that helped mice live longer, to a chunk of metal that managed to be in two places at once, this week's stories cross the full sweep of science. We've also got salamanders, a spacecraft preparing to slingshot past Mars, and a warning from cardiologists about what's on your plate.
From a rover sniffing out building blocks of life on Mars to a triangular aluminium molecule that could replace platinum, this week's science had something for nearly every classroom. We've also got two faults that may quake together, a 200-million-year-old crab habit, deep ocean heat creeping toward Antarctica, and what your morning coffee might be doing to your gut bacteria.