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The AlphaGarden robotic gardener

Technology

Robot gardener grows plants as well as humans do but uses less water

A vegetable-growing trial has pitted expert human gardeners against an AI-powered robot – both produced comparable crops, but the robot used about 40 per cent less water

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Alligators in Florida help other life thrive

Life

Alligators create hotspots for life by digging holes with their snouts

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A brown plaque formed in a human brain produced by the virus-like prion that causes Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

Health

Experimental treatment could work against prion diseases like CJD

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People standing on a glass floor at the Ostankino tower in Moscow, Russia

Mind

We know now what happens in our brain to make us scared of heights

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Mind

Could your gut bacteria influence how intelligent you are?

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Couples are less likely to physically collide with others than friends

Technology

Couples collide with fewer people on walks than pairs of friends do

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Snakes are quite quantum, mathematically speaking

Life

Wiggly worms and quantum objects follow surprisingly similar equations

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Health

Diabetes drug metformin may cut the risk of long covid by 41 per cent

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Harvestment can remove one of their own legs to escape a predator

Life

Losing a leg in youth changes how male harvestmen woo females

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Space

Astronomers are using a new supernova to search for alien signals

If any alien civilisations have spotted the new supernova SN 2023ixf in the Pinwheel galaxy, they may use it to try to make contact

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Space

Has anyone really seen evidence of aliens visiting Earth?

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Technology

Robotic dog spots invasive fire ant nests better than humans

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Environment

Raw sewage floods UK rivers with faecal bacteria after heavy rainfall

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Physics

Extremely cold drop of helium can be levitated forever

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