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An artist's impression of the WASP-148 planetary system © Institut d astrophysique de Paris/Dr Mark A Garlick

Giant exoplanets found to orbit star in ‘gravitational dance’

New trick to calculate your old dog's age © Getty Images

New trick to calculate your old dog’s age

Loud music puts young people at risk of hearing damage © Getty Images

Loud music puts young people at risk of undetected hearing damage

COVID-19: Undetected type of immunity 'twice as common' as antibodies © Getty Images

COVID-19 Public immunity ‘significantly higher’ than tests suggest

Mars 2020: NASA delays Perseverance rover launch again © NASA/JPL-Caltech

Mars 2020 NASA delays Perseverance rover launch again

Wanted dead or alive: 'Monster star' vanishes without a trace © L Calçada/ESO/PA

Wanted dead or alive: ‘Monster star’ vanishes without a trace

Over 40 per cent of COVID-19 cases asymptomatic in Italian town study (A man walks past a huge billboard that shows a woman with as protective mask in the colours of an Italian flag and which reads,

Over 40 per cent of COVID-19 cases asymptomatic in Italian town study

200 million-year-old fossil shows dinosaur 'walked like a guineafowl' © Getty Images

200 million-year-old fossil shows dinosaur ‘walked like a guineafowl’

Space balloon to ferry passengers into the stratosphere © Space Perspective

Space balloon to ferry passengers into the stratosphere

Coronavirus: is nature 'sending us a message'? © Getty Images

Reality Check Is the coronavirus pandemic caused by nature 'sending us a message'?

An individual of Ankylosaurus magniventris, a large armoured dinosaur species, witnesses the impact of an asteroid, falling on the Yucatán peninsula 66 million years ago. Not even its large size and thick armour sheltered its kind from the violence of this cosmic disaster © Fabio Manucci

Dinosaur extinction Asteroid impact ‘only plausible explanation’

Biodegradable scaffolds help infertile rabbits have normal pregnancy © Getty Images

Biodegradable scaffolds help infertile rabbits have normal pregnancy

Why are so many people playing Animal Crossing?

Reality Check Why are so many people playing Animal Crossing?

LED light from a £12 torch 'significantly improves vision' for the over 40s © University College London

LED light from a £12 torch ‘significantly improves vision’ for the over 40s

Artist’s impression of the multiplanetary system of newly discovered super-Earths orbiting nearby red dwarf Gliese 887 © Mark Garlick

Exoplanets Two "super Earths" discovered orbiting nearby star