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Astronomers spot fastest ever nova explosion © Mark Garlick

Astronomers spot fastest ever nova explosion

’Tsunami-like’ starquakes discovered in the most detailed survey of the Milky Way ever © ESA

’Tsunami-like’ starquakes discovered in the most detailed survey of the Milky Way ever

The Earth's core is funkier than we thought © Getty

The Earth’s core is funkier than we thought

Reality Check: Are the hottest cities in the world becoming uninhabitable thanks to climate change? © Getty Images

Reality Check: Are the hottest cities in the world becoming uninhabitable thanks to climate change?

Fast radio bursts just keep getting weirder © Bill Saxton, NRAO/AUI/NSF

Fast radio bursts just keep getting weirder

Drug treatment offers new hope for colorectal cancer patients © Getty Images

Drug cures 100 per cent of colorectal cancer patients in small initial trial

A large dark grey fish in a kelp forest

Ugly fish are under threat of extinction and need saving

A courtroom scene where a person wearing orange clothes that say 'County Jail' stands before a judge.

Stopping benefit payments increases criminal activity – and ends up costing governments more

Reality Check: What drives pathological liars and how should you deal with them? © Getty Images

Reality Check: What drives pathological liars and how should you deal with them?

Giraffes may have evolved long necks to help them throw brutal headbutts when competing for mates © Getty Images

Giraffes may have evolved long necks to help them throw brutal headbutts when competing for mates

An aerial view of the European Alps

Climate change is turning the European Alps from white to green

A deer in front of the headlights of a car

Fight-or-flight chemical helps our brains to learn from unexpected events

Megalodons may have been driven to extinction by hungry great whites scoffing all their food © Getty Images

Megalodons may have been driven to extinction by hungry great whites scoffing all their food

A parent and child at the doctor's office. The doctor is feeling the child's stomach.

Hepatitis in children: What we know about the surge in liver disease cases

A microscope image of the monkeypox virus. Left are mature virus particles, while the right shows growing virus particles © CDC/Cynthia S. Goldsmith

Monkeypox Explainer Why it's spreading now, what causes it and what to look for