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New adventures in time • The mysteries of the fourth dimension are a never-ending source of fascination
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Bird flu hits UK seabirds • Deadly avian influenza is spreading in the UK’s globally significant populations of gannets and geese, reports Adam Vaughan
Rewinding the Milky Way • The European Space Agency has released a new tranche of data from its Gaia space telescope, and now we can look back into the history of our galaxy, finds Alex Wilkins
Net-zero pledges for countries and firms are on the increase
No sign of a machine mind yet • Claims that an AI has become sentient have sparked excitement, but the reality is more mundane, reports Matthew Sparkes
Debate about the source of evolution’s diversity may have been settled
AI finds evidence of human fires from a million years ago
Strange new type of time crystal has been created
Dinosaur may have had a reptile version of a belly button
An epigenome-editing injection • Switching off a gene in mouse liver cells lowered cholesterol and should cut heart disease risk
Brain can be a few degrees hotter than the rest of the body
Mysterious cold blobs discovered hiding in a star
UK government admits its Net Zero Strategy doesn’t add up
Umbilical cord stem cell therapy treats rare disease
Physicists have made a quantum boomerang
Trees protect Raphael paintings • Dirty air that threatens Renaissance frescoes in Italy can be cleaned up by leaves
Test shows which bio parent gave you each bit of your DNA