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We must revisit the covid-19 pandemic to prepare for future outbreaks

Yuan Zheng/FeatureChina via AP Images/Alamy Yes, it really has been five years. On 7 January 2020, we published an article with the headline “Doctors scramble

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Will there be another pandemic after covid-19 and are we prepared?

It has been just over five years since the beginning of covid-19 The coronavirus behind covid-19 has infected most people in the world, killing around

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Flying electric taxis look set to finally take off in 2025

Joby Aviation is developing an electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images Flying taxis may finally arrive this year,

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People ate lots of foxes and wildcats 10,000 years ago

African wildcats seem to have been part of the human diet in the Levant 10,000 years ago NSP-RF/Alamy About 10,000 years ago, foxes and wildcats

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Humanoid robots will march into factories and homes in 2025

The Digit robot made by Agility Robotics is already working in warehouses Agile Robotics Humanoid robots are poised to enter warehouses, automotive factories and even

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How DNA in dirt is reshaping our understanding of Stone Age humans

Ancient human remains are rare and don’t necessarily contain DNA Shutterstock/Microgen It was an otherwise ordinary day in 2015 when Viviane Slon had her eureka

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Blinking may give your brain a micro break during cognitive tasks

Blinking may do more than just keep our eyes healthy gaiamoments/Getty Images Blinking serves a crucial physiological function, by clearing debris from our eyes and

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Physicists bend atoms in ‘impossible’ experiment

When particles act like waves, they create a circular diffraction pattern after passing through a small aperture E. R. DEGGINGER/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY A classic quantum

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Food made without farming will go on sale in the US in 2025

Croissant dough made from Savor’s farm-free butter Savor Growing numbers of people will be able to sample new types of butter, chocolate and ice cream

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Can we use quantum computers to test a radical consciousness theory?

The suggestion that consciousness has its origins in quantum weirdness has long been viewed as a bit, well, weird. Critics argue that ideas of quantum