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Last year’s extreme snowfall wiped breeding of plants and animals in a region of the Arctic © Lars Holst Hansen

Last year’s extreme snowfall wiped breeding of plants and animals in a region of the Arctic

Relative to body size, Saharan Silver Ants sprint 20x faster than Usain Bolt (These are Saharan silver ant (Cataglyphis bombycina) workers in the desert at Douz, Tunisia © Harald Wolf)

Relative to body size, Saharan silver ants sprint 20x faster than Usain Bolt

E-cigarettes could help more than 50,000 smokers quit in England each year © Getty Images

E-cigarettes could help more than 50,000 smokers quit in England each year

NASA's InSight digging into Mars after 7-month setback © NASA/JPL-Caltech via AP

NASA’s InSight digging into Mars after 7-month setback

Gaming addiction a symptom of mental health problems, not a cause © Joe Giddens/PA

Gaming addiction a symptom of mental health problems, not a cause

Christina Koch, right, and, Jessica Meir pose on the ISS (Nasa)

First all-female spacewalk finally confirmed for this afternoon

What if you could remember everything? © Getty Images

What if you could remember everything?

Blue light from smartphones may lead to brain damage... in flies © Getty Images

Blue light from smartphones may lead to brain damage… in flies

New NASA spacesuit revealed in preparation for return to the Moon (Kristine Davis, a spacesuit engineer at NASA’s Johnson Space Center, wearing a ground prototype of NASA’s new Exploration Extravehicular Mobility Unit (xEMU), is seen during a demonstration of the suit, Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2019 at NASA Headquarters in Washington. The xEMU suit improves on the suits previous worn on the Moon during the Apollo era and those currently in use for spacewalks outside the International Space Station and will be worn by first woman and next man as they explore the Moon as part of the agency’s Artemis program © NASA/Joel Kowsky)

New NASA spacesuit revealed in preparation for return to the Moon

Nightjar's moonlight movements could help us understand migration patterns © Getty Images

Nightjar’s moonlight movements could help us understand migration patterns

Meet Pete the fern, the world's first entirely plant-powered photographer (Pete the plant's camera equipment in action © ZSL:PA)

Meet Pete the fern, the world’s first entirely plant-powered photographer

A vial of TXA © Barry J Gibb/PA

Low-cost drug could save hundreds of thousands of lives following brain injury

Renewables overtake fossil fuels for UK energy output © Getty Images

Renewables overtake fossil fuels for UK energy output

A healthy diet could reduce the symptoms of depression © Getty Images

A healthy diet could reduce the symptoms of depression

Cull drives badgers roam further afield © Seth Jackson/PA

Cull drives badgers to roam further afield