UK’s only venomous snake rescued from New Forest fire
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Weatherwatch: Climate crisis fuelling steep fall in migratory bird numbers | Birds
It may still feel like summer, but in the world of birds, autumn migration is already well under…
Panama Canal cuts shipping over El Niño-fuelled drought
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Astronomers found a ‘mega Earth’ that shouldn’t exist. This alien world is breaking the rules of planet building
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A strange new quantum droplet can hold itself together
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Barn Owl rescued off the Norfolk coast after collapsing onto boat – BBC
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They’ve done it. NASA’s lunar probe has photographed the crater caused by a SpaceX rocket smashing into the Moon
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Hottest-ever West summer inspires project to prevent extinctions
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Earth as a single point of light: how a deep-space camera captured home
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Hidden magnetism inside atoms may explain mysterious gamma rays
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Friends’ love of West Midlands nature shared in YouTube films
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Scientists reported phosphine in Venus’s clouds in 2020, then watched the finding come under fierce attack. But years of follow-up observations have repeatedly recovered the signal with far more data, while no known non-biological process has yet been shown to produce the claimed amounts.
The phosphine argument at Venus did not end when the original result was challenged. Reprocessed ALMA observations, a…