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US stops endorsing covid-19 shots for kids – are other vaccines next?

US Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F Kennedy Jr Tasos Katopodis/Getty One of the top vaccine experts at

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Crafty cockatoos learn to use public drinking fountains

Cockatoos in Sydney, Australia, have learned to use public water fountains by twisting a handle, despite how difficult they are

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Any wall can be turned into a camera to see around corners

Technology for seeing around corners would be of use to the military Matthew Horwood/Getty Images An ordinary camera could soon

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Before the Great Wall, Chinese rulers built a shallow ditch

Archaeologists excavate part of the medieval wall system in Mongolia Gideon Shelach-Lavi et al. 2025 Long before the Great Wall

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Trump’s Golden Dome defence project could spur a space arms race

US President Donald Trump (left), accompanied by US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth (right), announces the Golden Dome missile defense

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New dwarf planet spotted at the edge of the solar system

The orbits of a potential dwarf planet called 2017 OF201 and the dwarf planet Sedna Tony Dunn A potential dwarf

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AI doesn’t know ‘no’ – and that’s a huge problem for medical bots

AI models can struggle to understand the captions on some medical images Getty Images Toddlers may swiftly master the meaning

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US east coast faces rising seas as crucial Atlantic current slows

The AMOC is a system of ocean currents that circulates water within the Atlantic Ocean NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific

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The FBI is getting new technology to see through walls

FBI headquarters in Washington DC Shutterstock/Bob Korn The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) plans to buy radar technology that

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Does intermittent fasting improve gut health? Why it’s hard to say

How does intermittent fasting change the gut microbiome? Oliver Leedham/Alamy Stock Photo There is evidence that intermittent fasting alters the