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The Tassie devils in my neighbourhood keep stealing shoes and laundry, but I adore them |

The thievery of these little creatures is endlessly amusing to me, but there have been, I’m told, a few rounds of inconvenienceGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastTo have your knickers go missing at a music festival may be seen as evidence of having a great

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Ebola and hantavirus can start like the flu but turn deadly fast

Two dangerous viruses are back in the spotlight, reminding health officials how quickly infectious diseases can become serious threats. Hantavirus, often linked to rodents, can cause severe heart and lung complications and has no specific treatment or vaccine, while certain strai

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Clean economy brings jobs and growth, says Miliband as £100bn invested in green energy

Energy secretary hails £100bn milestone in this parliament and says it is ‘only the start of what we want to achieve’Ed Miliband has hailed a boost to UK jobs and growth as government data reveals that private sector companies have pledged more than £100bn in investment into the

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Liquid ripples rewrite 130-year-old biological classic: New reflections on the lock-and-ke

This April, when the spring breeze carried the formal acceptance notice of our paper by the Journal of the American Chemical Society to my desk, my thoughts instantly drifted back to the late Phil Geissler. A legendary physical chemist and the original spark for this research, Ge

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Symbiotic partner-swapping or long-term fidelity? Partnership success between beetles and

Some insects and microbes develop symbiotic partnerships that become so interdependent they can no longer survive without each other. But how specific are these heritable symbioses? Is it possible for the same species of bacteria to flourish across different species of insect hos

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Documenting Ireland’s vanishing boglands: ‘They hold millennia in their layers’

Photographer Shane Hynan explores the tension between the central role peat bogs play in Irish life and their wider environmental impact“You can read Ireland’s history in the boglands. They hold millennia in their layers,” says photographer Shane Hynan of his project, Beofhód (me

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Artificial DNA tiles could deliver drugs and monitor neurons non-disruptively

Living cells constantly exchange ions (i.e., charged particles) via the thin barrier that surrounds their interior, known as the outer membrane. Neuroscientists and medical researchers have long been trying to devise effective methods to measure this exchange of ions, which is kn

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A turquoise tint for the Black Sea caused by phytoplankton

The Black Sea sits at the boundary between Europe and Asia and connects to the Mediterranean Sea via a chain of waterways. Its surface often appears dark, but each spring and summer it transforms into a striking expanse of swirling turquoise. The OCI (Ocean Color Instrument) on N

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Europe is battling a record‑breaking heat wave. What's making it so severe?

Sweltering temperatures are shattering records across Europe as the continent battles a deadly heat wave. On Tuesday and Wednesday, France endured its hottest days in history, with western regions reaching highs between 39°C and 43°C (102°F and 109°F). Wednesday was the United Ki

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Dog's skull shape and body weight linked to spinal fluid disorder risk

A new Cornell University study helps deepen the understanding of skull shapes in dogs of different sizes and draws a link between cranial and facial shapes, body weight, and the risk of syringomyelia, a spinal condition common in some dog breeds.

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Scientists measure hidden quantum forces that could power a new generation of pharmaceutic

It's one thing to design a pharmaceutical drug. It's another to know if and why it actually works; not on paper or in a computer model, but inside the chaotic world of living systems, where proteins twist into shape, atoms constantly pull and push each other apart, and molecular

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How soil pH shapes rice stink bug outbreaks by controlling key bacteria

Researchers at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), in collaboration with researchers from the University of the Ryukyus and the University of Electro-Communications, have discovered that soil pH is a key factor in regulating the symbiotic

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