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Tree vaccines and gene-edited butterflies among biotechnology projects funded by UK ‘invention agency’ | Conservation

Vaccines for ash trees, skin treatments for newts and gene-edited swallowtail butterflies are among 14 tax-funded projects from the UK’s “invention agency” aiming to...

Adults with severe mental illness die 15 to 20 years earlier from diseases such as cancer | Mental health

Adults with severe mental illness are nearly five times more likely than their peers to die from serious physical diseases before the age of...

The US air force admitted to deploying weapons in space. Don’t expect the White House to explain why | Space

In Hollywood at least, space weapons are a relatively simple concept. The good guys, from Captain Kirk and his crew in Star Trek, to...

230 years of unbroken weather recordings

Geoff MaskellBBC News NI weather presenterBBCArmagh Observatory holds weather records dating back to 1795Armagh Observatory is marking a very special meteorological milestone as the...

Some gut microbes can absorb and help expel ‘forever chemicals’ from the body, research shows | Pfas

Certain kinds of gut microbes absorb toxic Pfas “forever chemicals” and help expel them from the body via feces, new first-of-its-kind University of Cambridge...

New research centre to explore how AI can help humans ‘speak’ with pets | Animals

If your cat’s sulking, your dog’s whining or your rabbit’s doing that strange thing with its paws again, you will recognise that familiar pang...

It’s 12ft tall, covered in feathers and has been extinct for 600 years – can the giant moa bird really be resurrected? | Extinct...

Standing more than three metres (10ft) high, the giant moa is the tallest bird known to have walked on Earth. For thousands of years,...

Mystery interstellar object could be the oldest known comet

Georgina RannardScience and climate correspondentESO/O. HainautESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT) has obtained new images of the path, shown as a dotted line of lights,...

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