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A sketch of the giant octopus

Life

Largest-ever octopus was great white shark of invertebrate predators

During the Cretaceous, 19-metre-long predatory octopuses swam the seas, and evidence from their fossilised remains suggest they may have been highly intelligent hunters

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Anthropic's Project Glasswing website

Technology

Do you need to worry about Mythos, Anthropic's computer-hacking AI?

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Health

Catching a cold can delay cancer from spreading to the lungs

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Health

Huge study reveals how Epstein-Barr virus may cause multiple sclerosis

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MONROVIA, CALIFORNIA - MARCH 30: In an aerial view, an electric vehicle charges at an EVgo electric charger on March 30, 2026, in Monrovia, California. As gas prices surge amid the war in Iran, online automotive resource Edmunds reported a 22% increase in searches for electric vehicles during the week of March 2, as motorists look for ways to avoid high fuel costs. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Environment

Why your opinion of used electric vehicles is probably wrong

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Cow milking facility

Environment

98 per cent of meat and dairy sustainability pledges are greenwashing

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Ace returns a shot back against its human opponent

Technology

Table tennis-playing robot on track to becoming world champion

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A woman uses outdoor gym equipment

Health

Exercise advice for long covid may be doing more harm than good

Insight

woman holding ampoule of virus vaccine

Health

If a bird flu pandemic starts, we may have an mRNA vaccine ready

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Titan

Space

Titan’s strange plains may be explained by unusual weather

Most of Titan’s surface is oddly flat and smooth, and it may be because it is coated by as much as a metre of fluffy organic material that snowed down from the icy moon’s thick atmosphere

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Society

Game theory explains why the US's goals in Iran keep changing

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Physics

Diamonds are surprisingly elastic when you make them tiny

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Health

A whole new way to prevent death from sepsis shows promise

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Life

Parrot uses his broken beak to become a dominant male

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