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Surgeons perform the second ever pig-to-human heart transplant
The heart of a genetically modified pig has been transplanted into a man with heart disease, the second such surgery of its kind
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Blood donors may pass on small risk of brain bleed to recipients
Receiving a blood transfusion from someone who later develops a brain haemorrhage may very slightly raise someone’s risk of developing a brain bleed, too
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Massive power line will send Canadian hydropower to New York
New York City has begun construction on a project to hook up its grid to hydroelectric power plants in Canada via a 546-kilometre-long transmission line
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Man who sees upside down provides clues on how we process faces
A man with a condition that has rotated his head backwards can identify upright and inverted faces with similar accuracy, suggesting that facial processing skills are based on experience and evolutionary factors
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Jellyfish can learn from experience even though they lack a brain
As one of the biologically simplest kinds of animal, we might have thought jellyfish can’t learn, but it turns out they can
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No sign of Chandrayaan-3 as India searches for sleeping moon mission
The Vikram lander and Pragyan rover, which together make up India's Chandrayaan-3 moon mission, went to sleep two weeks ago to survive the freezing lunar night
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Armour-plated mollusc fluoresces brilliant red-pink
Chitons are unusual molluscs with a shell made up of plates, and they fluoresce a red-pink colour – perhaps to help the animals blend in against a background of red algae
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Seasonal affective disorder (SAD)
Seasonal affective disorder (SAD) may be caused by a lack of sunlight during the winter months. Its symptoms are similar to other forms of depression and it may be treatable via lifestyle measures and light therapy
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Mice grown with rat brains to help study cross-species organ donation
Creating mice with partial rat brains helps scientists better understand whether synthesising embryos from human and pig cells to grow organs such as kidneys could accidentally lead to pigs with human-like brains
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The Mexican hypothesis debunked: How marijuana really came to the US
The idea that marijuana use was introduced and spread across the US by immigrants from Mexico is widely accepted, but the evidence actually supporting this is dubious
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Five of sci-fi's best corporate villains, according to author John Scalzi
John Scalzi's new novel Starter Villain sees his hero inherit a villainous empire. Here, the science fiction author picks his favourite sci-fi baddies with a corporate leaning
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From Lex Luthor to Syndrome, five of sci-fi's best corporate villains
John Scalzi's new novel Starter Villain sees his hero inherit a villainous empire. Here, the science fiction author picks his favourite sci-fi baddies with a corporate leaning
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Turtles that move in herds reveal the complex social lives of reptiles
The hicatee turtles of Belize appear to move around in groups even when they aren't feeding, providing evidence of social complexity in reptiles
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OSIRIS-REx is about to fling samples of the asteroid Bennu at Earth
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission is about to hurtle past Earth, and if all goes well it will drop its samples from the asteroid Bennu in the Utah desert on 24 September
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We can only predict star motion in the Milky Way’s heart for 462 years
Chaos in the interactions between stars near the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole makes it impossible to predict their trajectories after about 462 years, much shorter than expected
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Europa’s underground ocean seems to have the carbon necessary for life
Observations from the James Webb Space Telescope have shown carbon dioxide on the surface of Jupiter’s icy moon Europa – that’s a good sign for the habitability of its buried seas
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Fish adapted to the deep sea 80 million years earlier than we thought
A set of unusual “trace” fossils in Italy reveal that fish were swimming in the deep ocean about 130 million years ago – much earlier than we had thought
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The strange plant that just might be the worst smell on the planet
Corpse flowers rarely bloom but if one does when you’re nearby you’ll know about it. Though many botanical gardens have their own corpse flowers, the plant's mysteries still abound
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Last chance to see comet Nishimura before it vanishes for 400 years
The comet Nishimura is heading away from the sun and on to the outer reaches of the solar system, so you'll need to be quick if you want to catch a glimpse
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Exquisite spider fossils from Australia offer clues to their evolution
A large brush-footed trapdoor spider and a small jumping spider from the Miocene Epoch between 11 and 16 million years ago show how different arachnids responded to rapidly changing climate
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