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  1. Space

    A Dune-inspired spacesuit turns astronaut pee into drinking water

    The spacesuit design collects urine, filters it, adds electrolytes and stores the cleaned water for the astronaut to drink.

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  2. Health & Medicine

    Bird flu has been invading the brains of mammals. Here’s why

    Although H5N1 and its relatives can cause mild disease in some animals, these viruses are more likely to infect brain tissue than other types of flu.

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  3. Genetics

    Freeze-drying turned a woolly mammoth’s DNA into 3-D ‘chromoglass’

    A new technique for probing the 3-D structure of ancient DNA may help scientists learn how extinct animals functioned, not just what they looked like.