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Space

This ancient stardust is the oldest ever to be examined in a lab

Tiny grains of stardust that formed long before our solar system are giving new insight into star formation in the Milky Way.

Physics

The fastest-spinning object ever made could help spot quantum friction in a vacuum

Scientists have developed a torque sensor made with a nanoparticle that can spin more than 300 billion times a minute.

Animals

Australian fires have incinerated the habitats of up to 100 threatened species

Hundreds of fires that are blazing across the continent’s southeast have created an unprecedented ecological disaster, scientists say.

Earth

Wildfires could flip parts of the Amazon from a carbon sponge to a source by 2050

Climate change and deforestation could double the area burned by fire in the southern Amazon by 2050, flipping the forest from carbon sponge to source.