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Nasa’s Ingenuity Helicopter (Nasa/JPL-Caltech)

When will the Ingenuity Mars helicopter fly?

Gold ‘tattoos’ revolutionise medical diagnostics

Colour-changing tattoos could tell you when you get ill

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Cheers! Method for turning spent grain from beer production into biofuels and plant-based foods developed

New treatment for breast cancer can be administered in just five minutes © Getty Images/praetorianphoto

‘Life-changing’ new breast cancer treatment can be administered in just five minutes

How to maximise your motivation, according to a neuroscientist © Getty Images

How to maximise your motivation, according to a neuroscientist

Evidence of 2,000km-wide asteroid impact crater in Antarctica discovered © Mark Garlick/markgarlick.com/PA

Evidence of 2,000km-wide asteroid impact crater in Antarctica discovered

DNA can be collected from air, scientists show for first time © Steve Parsons/PA

DNA can be collected from air, scientists show for first time

'One who causes fear': Newly discovered dinosaur was a top predator © Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology

‘One who causes fear’: Newly discovered dinosaur was a top predator

Woman looking worried using a phone

Checking symptoms with Dr Google is not as harmful as we thought

Newly discovered black hole could have formed 'before the first stars and galaxies' © Carl Knox/OzGrav/PA

Newly discovered black hole could have formed ‘before the first stars and galaxies’

Costa Rica tropical forest

Coffee waste can supercharge the growth of new forests

Mars

Scientists have measured the core of Mars (and found something unexpected)

Full moon © Getty

How to see the Worm Moon 2021 tonight

Girl eating an ice lolly

Sensitive teeth? Scientists discover why cold drinks and ice cream can be so painful

Scientists reconstruct the faces of 700-year-old skulls from Edinburgh © City of Edinburgh Council/PA

Scientists reconstruct the faces of 700-year-old skulls from Edinburgh