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Solar flare

Space

Tiny ‘solar flares’ recreated in the lab may explain corona mystery

An experiment has produced nanoflares similar to those seen on the sun, and shown that they can help explain why the outer layers of the solar atmosphere are so hot

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Illustration of a large asteroid colliding with Earth on the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico. This impact is believed to have led to the death of the dinosaurs some 65 million years ago. The impact formed the Chicxulub crater, which is around 200 kilometres wide. The impact would have thrown trillions of tons of dust into the atmosphere, cooling the Earth's climate significantly, which may have been responsible for the mass extinction. A layer of iridium-rich rock, known as the K-pg boundary, is thought to be the remnants of the impact debris.

Earth

Earth entered its ‘bad decades’ after dinosaur-ending asteroid strike

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Coral reef near French Polynesia

Environment

All tropical coral reefs could collapse within 50 years

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Mind

Adults may be more creative than children 鈥� but less confident about it

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Technology

Global race to update computers as AI discovers most disruptive hack yet

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Health

Cholesterol may disrupt the brain’s cleaning system in Alzheimer’s disease

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Bowl of halved oranges

Technology

Digital scents could add a new dimension to virtual worlds

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This photograph shows a charred forest with smoke rising in Deliblatska Pescara (Deliblato Sands), near the village of Grebenac, some 70 kilometres northeast of Belgrade on August 20, 2026, after a wildfire swept through the area. Firefighters were battling wildfires across the Balkans as days of high temperatures and drought conditions continue to drive blazes in several countries, including Serbia. 精东传媒s have long warned that climate change caused by human use of fossil fuels will make periods of drought more intense and longer-lasting, creating the ideal conditions for wildfires. (Photo by Uros Arsic / AFP via Getty Images)

Some climate damage is now unavoidable even if we clean up our act

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Gulf of Carpentaria in July 2016 showing dead mangroves

Environment

Falling sea levels due to El Ni帽o will hit mangroves and corals

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positron-trapping experiment

Physics

A single antimatter particle was held in a trap for months

After trapping a positron for the first time, physicists plan to use the resulting data to look for answers to one of particle physics鈥� biggest questions

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Mind

The world’s first spinal cord transplant has been performed in Russia

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Environment

UN says 1.5掳C is over and world is on track for 2.8掳C of global warming

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Health

Newly identified 鈥榗ircadian depression鈥� responds poorly to antidepressants

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Health

Parasite-infected mosquitoes released in Europe for first time

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