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Why is belly fat so easy to put on and so difficult to shift? © Getty Images

Can you target belly fat with pills and exercise, like the ads say?

Sun shining through ice

Turned out nice again: Amazing weather photography celebrated

James Webb Telescope releases spectacular images of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot and ghostly glowing auroras © NASA, ESA, CSA, Jupiter ERS Team; image processing by Judy Schmidt

James Webb Telescope releases spectacular images of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot and ghostly glowing auroras

Can geneticists really resurrect the thylacine or will they just be creating a big stripey mouse? © Getty Imges

Scientists could create a genetic doppelgänger of a Tasmanian Tiger. But will it be wild enough to avoid extinction a second time?

What's the chance of a piece of space junk falling on my head? © Brad Tucker

Bits of old spaceships will continue to fall out of the sky, but that’s the least of our problems, warn astronomers

Fly Fungus

Deadly fungus attacking a fly wins BMC Ecology and Evolution Photography Awards

HAIXI, CHINA - AUGUST 12: The Perseid meteor shower illuminate the night sky over the Eboliang Yardang landform on August 12, 2022 in Haixi Mongolian and Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai Province of China. (Photo by Wu Zhengjie/VCG via Getty Images)

Meteor showers, a galactic dance and the Artemis mission to the Moon | The best images in science this week

Algorithm predicts when and where a crime will happen before it takes place © Getty Images

An algorithm can predict future crimes with 90% accuracy. Here’s why the creator thinks the tech won’t be abused

Geneticists aim to resurrect the Tasmanian Tiger within the next ten years © Dave WATTS/JACANA/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images

Geneticists aim to resurrect the Tasmanian tiger within the next 10 years

Bizarre ‘Minion-like’ creature with no anus is not earliest known human ancestor after all © Philip Donoghue et al

Bizarre Minion-like creature with no anus is not our earliest known ancestor after all

Fish

Fish “chock-full” of antifreeze protein found in sub-zero Arctic waters

Opioid painkillers provide little relief for those suffering from chronic pain. Perhaps music is the answer © Getty Images

Opioid painkillers provide little relief for those suffering from chronic pain. Perhaps music is the answer

Hormone secreted by fat cells could help to treat tumours caused by non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, mice study shows © Getty Images

Hormone secreted by fat cells could be used to treat liver tumours, mice study shows

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Translation errors in police interviews could send innocent people to jail

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Nope: Could UFOs really exist and how would they fly?