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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

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