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Editor-selected stories across disciplines — the week in science.

Conservationists wary of Nepal's plan to relocate blackbucks

Nepal is preparing to relocate 18 blackbucks from the country’s west to its south central region, near the popular Chitwan National Park.

Earth.combiology

Venomous Himalayan snake turns out to be five separate species

DNA from a 160-year-old museum snake specimen revealst the Himalayan pit viper is five separate species, including three new to science.

ScienceDailyneuroscience

Caffeine reversed memory problems caused by sleep deprivation

Scientists discovered that sleep deprivation damages a key brain circuit responsible for social memory, making it harder to recognize familiar individuals. In laboratory studies, caffeine restored communication between neurons in this pathway and reversed the memory deficits cause...

Naturemedicine

First pig liver and kidneys transplanted into a person — could ease organ shortages

Organs from genetically modified pigs are being used in trials in China and the US.

BBCmedicine

PCOS to PMOS name change 'more representative of condition'

Health experts in Jersey say the change helps people realise it is not an ovaries-only condition.

Science Newsbiology

Even careful scuba divers can damage coral reefs

Hours of diving videos and hundreds of survey responses reveal the common diver mistakes that can cause irreversible reef damage.

Spaceastronomy

Dozens of hidden star streams found in the outskirts of our Milky Way galaxy

It turns out that it's a lot easier to find things when you have a theoretical expectation of what you're looking for when you have a simple phenomenological picture

Spaceastronomy

The Milky Way may have devoured another galaxy named Loki, and astronomers think they've found its remains

Astronomers say that they have identified 20 stars that may have grown up together in a dwarf galaxy named....

Naturetechnology

Robots run this laboratory in Japan — and are changing how scientists work

Researchers hope to build a facility with thousands of robots capable of performing experiments independently by 2040.

Naturetechnology

AI cracks 80-year-old mathematics challenge — researchers are astonished

The late Hungarian mathematician Paul Erdős thought he had the last word on a geometry problem. Now an OpenAI chatbot has proved him wrong.

Interesting Engineeringtechnology

China puts humanoid robots through tea harvesting field trials

China is testing humanoid robots in tea production as part of preparations for the 2026 World Humanoid Robot Games.

The Weekgeneral

Is the world losing scientific innovation?

New research seems to be less exciting