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5 strange discoveries from Egypt’s lost golden city

A picture taken on April 9, 2021 in Saignelegier shows a horse being airlifted during a test by Swiss army forces on hoisting horses with a helicopter. - The scientific project, carried out by the Vetsuisse faculty of veterinary medicine and the Swiss army veterinary service, aims at transporting and rapidly evacuating injured horses to a medical veterinary infrastructure. (Photo by Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP) (Photo by FABRICE COFFRINI/AFP via Getty Images)

Foals rush in where angels fear to tread: Swiss military test helicopter horse evacuation procedure

Gorillas beat their chest to prove who is the bigger foe © Getty Images

Gorillas beat their chest to prove who is the bigger foe

sickle-cell-disease © Getty

Sickle cell disease: scientists are developing a game-changing treatment

Monkey Island macaques joined together for support after Hurricane Maria © Lauren Brent/University Of Exeter

Monkey Island macaques joined together for support after Hurricane Maria

Oxford Vaccine © Getty

Does the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine cause blood clots?

The Muon g-2 particle accelerator at Fermilab near Chicago

A bluffer’s guide to the new fundamental law of nature

45,000-year-old female skull offers ‘oldest modern human genome’ © Martin Frouz/Max Planck Society

45,000-year-old female skull offers ‘oldest modern human genome’

Assistance dogs’ feet are pawsitively cleaner than the soles of shoes

Assistance dogs’ feet are pawsitively cleaner than the soles of shoes

COVID-19: 60 per cent drop in cases from February to March © Getty Images

COVID-19: 60 per cent drop in cases in England from February to March

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21 incredible pictures from the Bird Photographer of the Year 2021

Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine turns cells into ‘little factories’ to fight off COVID-19 © University of Southampton/PA

Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine turns cells into ‘little factories’ to fight off COVID-19

The Jezero Crater on Mars as seen from the NASA Perseverance Rover

The Perseverance rover is sending weather reports back from Mars

One third of COVID survivors diagnosed with mental health conditions © Neil Hall/PA

One-third of COVID survivors diagnosed with mental health conditions

Painkillers should not be prescribed for chronic pain with no known underlying cause

Painkillers should not be prescribed for chronic pain with no known underlying cause