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May 2020 'joint-hottest month' since records began © Getty Images

May 2020 ‘joint-hottest month’ since records began

Photo (top) and 3D reconstruction using microtomography (bottom) of the miniature bird sculpture. Its production combined four different techniques (abrasion, gouging, scraping and incision), which left 68 microfacets on the surface of the object © Francesco d'Errico and Luc Doyon

13,000-year-old miniature bird sculpture ‘oldest work of art’ to be found in China

Roman ciRoman city revealed in 'astonishing level of detail' by GPR technology (Ground penetrating radar image of the newly discovered temple in the Roman city of Falerii Novi, Italy, by the University of Cambridge and Ghent University in Belgium © L Verdonck/PA)ty revealed in 'astonishing level of detail' by GPR technology ( Ground penetrating radar image of the newly discovered temple in the Roman city of Falerii Novi, Italy, by the University of Cambridge and Ghent University in Belgium © L Verdonck/PA)

Roman city revealed in ‘astonishing level of detail’ by radar technology

May 2020 global temperatures hottest on record © Getty Images

May 2020 global temperatures hottest on record

’DNA fingerprinting’ may help to decipher Dead Sea Scrolls © Courtesy of the Israel Antiquities Authority, Photographer Shai Halevi

‘DNA fingerprinting’ may help to decipher Dead Sea Scrolls

The Harlequin frog was widespread in Costa Rica and Panama until an introduced fungus from Asia decimated its populations, scientists say © Gerardo Ceballos/University of Mexico/PA

Extinction of land-based vertebrate species risks ‘catastrophic ecosystem collapse’

‘Turn off the tap’ on all ocean pollutants, says report © Getty Images

‘Turn off the tap’ on all ocean pollutants, not just plastic, says report

Rapid Ice Age retreat of Antarctic ice gives stark climate change warning © Getty Images

Rapid Ice Age retreat of Antarctic ice gives stark climate change warning

Danish seismologist Inge Lehmann, shown in 1932 © The Royal Library, National Library of Denmark, and University of Copenhagen University Library

Inge Lehmann The Danish scientist who discovered Earth has a solid inner core

Global temperature rise must be kept under 2°C to protect tropical forests © Dr Lindsay F. Banin / PA

Global temperature rise must be kept under 2°C to protect tropical forests

The dirty truth about eating green © Tom Straw

The dirty truth about eating green

Mycorrhizal networks: what exactly is the wood-wide web? © Tidy Designs

The wood-wide web Can trees and plants really talk to each other?

Tim Peake's space seeds grow slower when back on planet Earth (Timothy Peake with space seeds on the ISS © ESA/Nasa)

Tim Peake’s space seeds grew slower back on planet Earth

Fossil footprints 'provide a tantalising snapshot of humankind’s earliest days' © William Harcourt-Smith/Lehman College

Fossil footprints ‘provide a tantalising snapshot of humankind’s earliest days’

Cold War atomic bomb tests made the UK rainier © Getty Images

Cold War atomic bomb tests made the UK rainier