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1. Nuclear waste tanker pilots futuristic aluminium sail
   Adding blade-like sails to tankers could reduce their annual fuel consumption by up to 30 per cent, slashing the climate impact of the shipping industry
2. DNA has been modified to make it store data 350 times faster
   Researchers have managed to encode enormous amounts of information, including images, into DNA at a rate hundreds of times faster than was previously possible
3. Google tool makes AI-generated writing easily detectable
   Google DeepMind has been using its AI watermarking method on Gemini chatbot responses for months – and now it’s making the tool available to any AI developer
4. A supernova may have cleaned up our solar system
   A nearby star that exploded some 3 million years ago could have removed all dust smaller than a millimetre from the outer solar system
5. All your questions about Marburg virus answered
   Everything you need to know about Rwanda's outbreak of Marburg virus, which has been described as one of the deadliest human pathogens
6. Extremely rare Bronze Age wooden tool found in English trench
   In a wetland on the south coast of England, archaeologists dug up one of the oldest and most complete wooden tools ever found in Britain, which is around 3500 years old
7. The mystery of the missing La Niña continues – and we don't know why
   A climate-cooling La Niña pattern was expected to develop in the Pacific Ocean months ago, but forecasters now say it won't appear until November
8. Neuroscientist finds her brain shrinks while taking birth control
   A researcher who underwent dozens of brain scans discovered that the volume of her cerebral cortex was 1 per cent lower when she took hormonal contraceptives
9. Meta AI tackles maths problems that stumped humans for over a century
   A type of mathematical problem that was previously impossible to solve can now be successfully analysed with artificial intelligence
10. Morphing red blood cells help bats hibernate - and we could do it too
    Animals that hibernate need a way to keep their blood flowing as their body temperature drops, and it seems that the mechanical properties of red blood cells may be key