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For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Some of the most deprived parts of the UK may see nearly 70 more annual premature deaths per 100,000 due to the ongoing cost of living crisis, according to a new study. The …

Sign up for a full digest of all the best opinions of the week in our Voices Dispatches email Sign up to our free weekly Voices newsletter In an apparent example of interspecies compassion, a group of crocodiles appeared to usher a dog to safety after it fell into a dangerous river. The dog, believed to be a stray, was …

Sign up for a full digest of all the best opinions of the week in our Voices Dispatches email Sign up to our free weekly Voices newsletter British and African archaeologists have discovered evidence of the world’s oldest human-built structure, built by an extinct species of humans from half a million years ago. It was unearthed in southern Africa. Made …

Sign up for a full digest of all the best opinions of the week in our Voices Dispatches email Sign up to our free weekly Voices newsletter Scientists have developed a way of identifying life on other planets. They say the new method, which uses artificial intelligence (AI), can determine with 90% accuracy if a sample is biological or non-biological. …

Sign up for a full digest of all the best opinions of the week in our Voices Dispatches email Sign up to our free weekly Voices newsletter Antibiotics can help some bacteria survive for longer, new research suggests. Until now it had been thought that antibiotics – widely used as blanket medication for bacterial infections – kill bacteria or stop them …

Sign up for a full digest of all the best opinions of the week in our Voices Dispatches email Sign up to our free weekly Voices newsletter An antiviral drug used to treat Covid-19 patients could be linked to mutations in the virus, new research suggests. The medication, molnupiravir, works by causing mutations in the virus’s genetic information, or genome, …

Sign up for a full digest of all the best opinions of the week in our Voices Dispatches email Sign up to our free weekly Voices newsletter Box jellyfish, known to carry one of the deadliest venoms in the world, can learn from past experiences like humans without having a central brain and are more advanced than previously thought, according …

Sign up for a full digest of all the best opinions of the week in our Voices Dispatches email Sign up to our free weekly Voices newsletter British and African archaeologists have discovered evidence of the world’s oldest human-built structure, built by an extinct species of humans from half a million years ago. It was unearthed in southern Africa. Made …

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails A court tomb older than Egypt’s pyramids has secured a permanent new home on display at the Ulster Folk Museum. The 6,000-year-old tomb, which dates back to the Neolithic era, was discovered in …

Sign up for a full digest of all the best opinions of the week in our Voices Dispatches email Sign up to our free weekly Voices newsletter Sir Brian May has said he is “immensely proud” to be part of the Osiris-Rex team who have successfully collected Nasa’s first asteroid samples from deep space. A capsule containing around 250g of …