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Knitting the cosmos

Chen Yinghua, an embroidery artist, has brought her own universe created with needles and silk threads, to the opening ceremony of the Space Day of China held in Nanjing on Saturday.Based in Suzhou, a

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Giant cloud rat species once roamed Earth thousands of years ago, say scientists

The now extinct species were fluffy with big, bushy tails, researchers say, and humans may have had a role in their disappearance.

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Vaccines key to ending pandemic - but COVID variants could drive new surge in cases

If variants spread widely in the UK, the epidemic could surge for several months while new vaccines are made and rolled out.

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MI5 reveals 'secret to successful spying' in first Instagram post

Director general Ken McCallum has said he wants MI5 to "open up and reach out in new ways".

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Disrupted sleep can increase risk of death, study suggests

Women are almost twice as likely to suffer from serious heart problems when experiencing regularly disrupted sleep.

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Mobile phone masts could up to 30 metres high under plans to increase rural connectivity

The government is proposing changes to improve mobile phone connectivity for  people who live, work, and travel in rural areas.

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UK set to reach herd immunity 'milestone' within days, say scientists

Real-time modelling indicates the nation is at a point where enough resistance is built up to combat the spread of infection.

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Don't bank on summer of freedom as scientists predict third COVID wave at height of holiday season

Hospital admissions could be as high at the end of July and the start of August as they were in January, experts warn.

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Another failed landing for SpaceX Starship as rocket breaks apart, but fog hides cause of explosion

Elon Musk says SpaceX will have to examine the pieces from the exploded spacecraft to find out what went wrong.

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More than 100 years before asteroid Apophis may hit Earth, says NASA

Apophis would release energy equivalent to 28,000 times that of the nuclear bomb dropped on Hiroshima.

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NASA prepares its Ingenuity helicopter for first flight on Mars

The tiny helicopter, which weighs just 1.8kg, is still attached to the Perseverance rover but will be deployed in weeks.

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'Hear that?' NASA shares first recording of rover driving on Mars

You can hear the bangs, pings and rattles of the Perseverance rover's six metal wheels driving across Mars' surface.

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Europe's droughts since 2015 'worst in 2,000 years'

Recent summer droughts in Europe were the most severe the region has seen in 2,110 years as climate change has stoked punishing heat waves, according to new research Monday that raises the alarm for

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Whitty and Valance 'losing sleep over what could go wrong' as COVID lockdown eases

Despite the success of the rollout, the vaccine is not a "get out of jail free card", they say, warning of "big blocks of risk".

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Revealed: Test and Trace barely used pub and restaurant check-in data, putting thousands at risk

The report admitted the app was "not fully" utilised, despite a nationwide campaign to encourage its use.

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Twitter expands 'warning labels' to target misleading COVID vaccine posts

The social media platform is also starting a strike system that "determines when further enforcement action is necessary".

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Perseverance rover takes 11 million earthling names to Mars

The names of 284,350 people from the UK were among the names from 250 countries and territories travelling to the red planet.