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Hospital hit by Hurricane Milton gets system to grab water from air

Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital was hit by Hurricane Milton earlier this week Dirk Shadd/Tampa Bay Times/ZUMA Wire/Alamy A children’s

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Living microbes found deep inside 2-billion-year-old rock

Cells found inside ancient rocks, their DNA stained with a green fluorescent dye Y. Suzuki, S. J. Webb, M. Kouduka

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Nobel prize for medicine goes to the pair who discovered microRNA

Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun are announced as the winners of the 2024 Nobel prize in physiology or medicine Jonathan

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Hera mission set to revisit asteroid Didymos after NASA’s DART redirection test

The European Space Agency’s Hera mission will study the asteroids Dimorphos aided by two CubeSats called Juventas and Milani ESA/ScienceOffice.org

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The best new sci-fi this month featuring an Alan Moore epic and a Blake Crouch reissue

Tim Winton’s new novel Juice is being compared to the post-apocalyptic Station Eleven and The Road Buena Vista Images/Getty Images

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CBD shows promise as pesticide for mosquitoes

Mosquito larvae die after consuming hemp leaves because they react strongly to the cannabidiol in the foliage. The discovery might

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Smart TVs take snapshots of what you watch multiple times per second

Smart TVs watch everything on the screen Shutterstock Popular smart TV models made by Samsung and LG can take multiple

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XEC: What we know about the new covid-19 variant and its symptoms

Covid-19 variant XEC may spread more easily than previous variants Jarun Ontakrai/Shutterstock A new covid-19 variant called XEC has started

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Giant rats trained to sniff out illegal wildlife trade

African giant pouched rats proved adept at detecting four commonly trafficked products derived from endangered species including rhino horn and

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Polaris Dawn mission is one giant leap for private space exploration

An artist’s rendering of the spacewalk on the Polaris Dawn mission SpaceX SpaceX’s Polaris Dawn mission is a leap forward