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Odd geometric shapes can be produced with the quark-gluon plasma created in the PHENIX Detector particle collider © Javier Orjuela Koop

Scientists create strange matter that once filled Universe

Spider found nursing its offspring with milk © Rui-Chang Quin

Spider found nursing its offspring with milk

Cave art suggests that ancient people had a good grasp of the night sky, and drew images of animals to depict constellations © University of Edinburgh

Cave paintings reveal ancient Europeans’ knowledge of the stars

The texture of an artist’s original work (bottom) can now be reproduced with AI-controlled 3D printing (top) © MIT CSAIL

AI recreates paintings using 3D printing

Mystery of ‘headhunting’ ants solved © Adrian Smith

Mystery of ‘headhunting’ ants solved

Women may not remember pain © Getty Images

Women might not remember pain as much as men

Cliff erosion uncovers treasure trove of dinosaur footprints © Neil Davies

Cliff erosion uncovers treasure trove of dinosaur footprints

310-million-year-old 'line-dancing' footprints discovered © Stephen Rowland

310-million-year-old ‘line-dancing’ footprints discovered

New Horizons returns sharp images of Ultima Thule © NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute

New Horizons returns sharp image of Ultima Thule

Graphene nanoribbons (black) harvest energy generated by cyanobacterial ‘bio ink’ (green) © sudeep joshi/stevens institute of technology

Mushrooms unlock energy-producing potential of cyanobacteria

Black hole mergers spotted for the first time © Hubble/NASA

Black hole mergers spotted for the first time

Could ’Oumuamua really be an alien probe? © ESO

Could ’Oumuamua really be an alien probe?

Orangutans hook up tool-based solutions quicker than human kids © Getty Images

Orangutans hook up tool-based solutions quicker than human kids

Star Trek-inspired aeroplane powered by ‘Ionic wind’ takes flight © Christine Ye He/MIT/Nature

Star Trek-inspired aeroplane powered by ‘ionic wind’ takes flight