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A thousand years old and 20 storeys high: tracking down Taiwan’s tallest trees

The country’s biggest tree – named Heaven Sword of the Da’an River – is a carbon-storing behemoth hosting whole neighbourhoods of wildlife. But this and other giant trees are under threatThe higher you climb up the gigantic, millennia-old trees of Taiwan’s forests, the more layer

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This emerging treatment is helping people avoid knee replacement surgery

A minimally invasive treatment called GAE is helping people with chronic knee pain get back to gardening, cycling, and other activities without undergoing knee replacement surgery. Early studies suggest the procedure can provide years of relief by reducing inflammation inside the

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Remembering summer 1976: how the historic heatwave has become our new normal

Half a century on, Britain braces for temperatures up to 40C as global heating brings yet more extreme weatherThe summer of 1976 is seared into national memory as one of record heat. Harvests failed, farmers despaired, Britain imported an extra million tonnes of grain, food price

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Scientists open a million-year-old time capsule hidden beneath New Zealand

A cave in New Zealand has yielded fossils from a lost ecosystem that existed about 1 million years ago, including a possible flying ancestor of the kākāpō. The discovery reveals that volcanoes and climate upheaval were reshaping the country’s wildlife and driving extinctions long

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A tiny diamond defect could reveal a mysterious new kind of magnetism

A newly proposed quantum sensing technique could make it much easier to identify one of physics’ newest and most intriguing classes of magnets: altermagnets. These unusual materials, discovered only a few years ago, appear to combine the speed and efficiency of antiferromagnets w

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Can the UK kick its cod habit? Fish and chip shop favourite slips down the menu as prices

The cost of the traditional takeaway has doubled since 2019, and more outlets are trying to tempt customers with cheaper options such as coley, pollack and hakeIn late April, visitors to Harbour Lights in Falmouth, Cornwall, may have raised an eyebrow. The fish and chip shop was

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Scientists alarmed after two wildfires hit Greenland within a week

Researchers say it is ‘quite wild’ to see fires at such high northern latitudes happen so early in the yearScientists have expressed concern after two wildfires broke out within a week of each other on the Arctic island of Greenland earlier this month.Fires were burning close to

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How long can plants survive on Earth? New model suggests up to 2 billion more years

Vegetarians need not worry yet—plants will be on Earth for a long time to come. But not forever. The sun will ultimately determine the long-term existence of life on Earth. Its total energy output, called luminosity, has been increasing over epochs and eons by about 10% every bil

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From yoghurt to luxury sails: how to shade your home from supercharged UK heatwaves

As hot weather becomes more common, companies and homeowners are coming up with innovative ways to keep properties coolWhen graphic designer Marc Alabaster had a new set of glass doors installed at his West Sussex home eight years ago, he soon realised how they magnified the heat

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Although woodland salamanders have looked the same for millions of years, their physiology

For her doctoral dissertation, Yale's Nathalie Alomar decided to study a small amphibian that appeared to have eluded the forces of evolution. She found that there is more to its evolution than meets the eye.

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Hubble details early galaxy transforming neighborhood 1.4 billion years after Big Bang

Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have found something they never expected—ultraviolet light from a galaxy that existed just 1.4 billion years after the Big Bang. That galaxy contains tightly clustered young stars that produce ionizing light capable of transforming

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Oldest known asteroid impact on Earth dated to 3 billion years

Curtin University researchers have determined the most precise age yet for the oldest known impact crater on Earth, providing new insight into how meteorite strikes shaped the planet during its earliest history.

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