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Cord blood banking is not living up to its promise

Banking a baby’s umbilical cord blood was once seen as a reasonable way to protect their future health, but much of that potential has turned

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Trump’s Golden Dome defence project could spur a space arms race

US President Donald Trump (left), accompanied by US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth (right), announces the Golden Dome missile defense shield CHRIS KLEPONIS/POOL/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock US President

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Supergiant crustaceans may cover more than half of the deep-sea floor

Alicella gigantea, the world’s largest amphipod, may be more common than we had thought Maroni et al./Royal Society Open Science A giant crustacean that resembles

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US east coast faces rising seas as crucial Atlantic current slows

The AMOC is a system of ocean currents that circulates water within the Atlantic Ocean NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio The slowdown of

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China’s CO2 emissions have started falling – is this finally the peak?

A floating solar farm in Huainan City, China is part of the country’s renewable power build-out Imago / Alamy China, the world’s largest emitter of

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Does intermittent fasting improve gut health? Why it’s hard to say

How does intermittent fasting change the gut microbiome? Oliver Leedham/Alamy Stock Photo There is evidence that intermittent fasting alters the gut microbiome, and while this

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Failed Soviet probe will soon crash to Earth – and we don’t know where

A model of Kosmos 482, which was originally set to go to Venus Wikimedia Commons More than 50 years after its launch, a Soviet spacecraft

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Shingles vaccine linked with lower risk of many common heart problems

A shingles vaccine seems to provide additional benefits Cavan Images / Alamy Vaccination against herpes zoster, better known as shingles, not only helps prevent this

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Disastrous back-to-back heatwaves and droughts surge across Eurasia

Drought conditions can have devastating impacts on Eurasian regions like Karapinar in Turkey YASIN AKGUL/AFP via Getty Images Over the past two decades, swathes of

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Deepfake makers can now evade an unusual detection method

Some deepfake videos present a convincing pulse Alamy Stock Photo Deepfake videos that feature digital manipulations of people’s facial expressions and voices can also depict