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Volcano eruption may have led to the Black Death coming to Europe Climate data and historical accounts suggest that crop failures in the 1340s prompted Italian officials to import grain from eastern Europe, and this may have carried in the plague bacterium
https://www.newscientist.com/a....rticle/2507050-volca


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Could the super-rich be cloning themselves? And why would they? Nearly three decades since the remarkable cloning of Dolly the sheep, it has all gone quiet on the human cloning front. Michael Le Page wonders what's happening behind the scenes
https://www.newscientist.com/a....rticle/2506856-could


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Tigers seem to be bouncing back in remote Sumatran jungle Camera traps in an area of the Leuser rainforest patrolled by NGOs spotted 17 tigers in 2023 and 18 Sumatran tigers in 2024, while surveys elsewhere on the island averaged seven
https://www.newscientist.com/a....rticle/2506902-tiger


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Incredible close-up of spider silk wins science photo prize Duelling prairie chickens, a snake-mimicking moth and a once-a-year sunrise at the South Pole feature in the best images from the Royal Society Publishing Photography Competition 2025
https://www.newscientist.com/a....rticle/2506729-incre


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Why quantum mechanics says the past isn’t real The famous double-slit experiment brings into question the very nature of matter. Its cousin, the quantum eraser experiment, makes us question the very existence of time – and how much we can manipulate it
https://www.newscientist.com/a....rticle/2505823-why-q


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