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Amphibious boat brings Bond-style glamour to RSPB in Northumberland

Bear Grylls-inspired vessel helps wardens on Coquet Island care for UK’s only breeding colony of roseate ternsIt looks like something James Bond might drive – or, more accurately, Bear Grylls.

Supposed dire wolf ‘de-extinction’ is part cool science, part flashy marketing

Colossal Biosciences hopes to use genetic engineering to "jumpstart nature's ancestral heartbeat." ​Read More

Poor and Simple

NASA/CXC/JPL-Caltech/STScI Stars at the center of the Small Magellanic Cloud. Our Sun, like all stars, is made mostly of hydrogen and helium. They are by far the most abundant elements,

Atomic Secrets: a Chornobyl scientist warns of a toxic future

Dmitry Kalmykov is a Ukrainian scientist who has dedicated his life to investigating environmental disasters, first at Chornobyl and now in Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan – formerly the Soviet Union’s primary nuclear

Atomic Secrets: a Chornobyl scientist warns of a toxic future

Dmitry Kalmykov is a Ukrainian scientist who has dedicated his life to investigating environmental disasters, first at Chornobyl and now in Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan - formerly the Soviet Union's primary nuclear

Revealed: Chinese researchers can access half a million UK GP records

Medical information will be available from UK Biobank, despite western intelligence agencies’ security fearsResearchers from China are to be allowed access to half a million UK GP records despite western

5% of US cancers may be caused by medical imaging radiation

CT scans are vital for effectively diagnosing problems with bones, muscles, organs and blood vessels. But overuse could be the cause of 1 in 20 cancers, according to a US

Acupuncture Paradox?

Let's see. Let's put the chaise longues facing the ice berg. The blue and white of the ice are a nice focal point. We can alternate the chaise longue with

What’s more vacuous than an endless vacuum? It’s Lauren Sanchez and Katy Perry’s party in space | Marina Hyde

The all-female Blue Origin flight on Monday broke boundaries and set records in the spouting of girlboss gibberishWell, I watched every second of the buildup, flight and aftermath of the

That Cancer Conversation Podcast Season 3: Ep.3 ‘Bowelbabe Fund special’

The post That Cancer Conversation Podcast Season 3: Ep.3 ‘Bowelbabe Fund special’ appeared first on Cancer Research UK - Cancer News. ​ 

Non-Transparency Resumed After Pirate Site Blacklist Publicly Exposed in Error

As debate heats up in the United States over proposed site-blocking legislation, opinions of what that might mean in practice are already beginning to emerge. Introduced by Rep. Zoe Lofgren

Faintings, blackouts and violence: Iraq’s scorching emergency – in pictures

The country’s average temperature has risen by 0.48C a decade from 2000. Last August, photographer Susan Schulman visited Baghdad and Amarah, to capture the impact of extreme weather on everyday