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The heart of a genetically modified pig has been transplanted into a man with heart disease, the second such surgery of its kind

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

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

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

As one of the biologically simplest kinds of animal, we might have thought jellyfish can’t learn, but it turns out they can

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The hicatee turtles of Belize appear to move around in groups even when they aren't feeding, providing evidence of social complexity in reptiles

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

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

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

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

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

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

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