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Bronze Age Britons fashioned copper-mining tools out of old bones

Wedges made of limb bones may have been used for splitting soft, copper-bearing rock O. Zagorodnia Even with the technology

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Will Colombia summit kick-start the end of the fossil fuel era?

Irene Velez Torres and Stientje van Veldhoven, ministers from Colombia and the Netherlands, embrace at the end of the conference

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‘Green’ cryptocurrency uses 18 times more energy than makers claim

Chia is a cryptocurrency that relies on empty hard disk space Andrey Zhuravlev/Alamy A cryptocurrency marketed as a green alternative

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Coral reefs on a remote archipelago shrugged off a massive heatwave

The Houtman Abrolhos Islands, off Western Australia, where corals appear to be exceptionally heat-tolerant Bill Bachman/Alamy Coral reefs on a

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Gravity’s strength measured more reliably than ever before

Stephan Schlamminger and his colleague, Vincent Lee, examine the torsion balance they used to measure the gravitational constant R. Eskalis/NIST

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How we discovered the speed limit of arithmetic – and broke it

Did you hear the one about the man who invented chess and got himself executed? Legend has it that a

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Electric vehicle owners could earn thousands by supporting power grid

Electric cars could make their owners money while they sit idle Maskot Bildbyrå At least 90 per cent of the

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Largest ever map of universe captures 47 million galaxies and quasars

A thin slice of the map produced by the DESI five-year survey shows galaxies and quasars above and below the

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NASA’s Artemis II mission was a historic success

  The astronauts of the Artemis II mission have made it home. Their journey, which began in Cape Canaveral, Florida,

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Elizabeth Banks and Matthew Macfadyen’s sci-fi show The Miniature Wife underwhelms

Matthew Macfadyen and Elizabeth Banks star in The Miniature Wife Peacock Miniature people have been a staple of science fiction