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A contraceptive pill for males has been found to be 99% effective in preventing pregnancy through tests in mice. The hope is that the breakthrough medication could bring balance to the contraceptive burden.


British tech firm ‘Nothing’ launches the first UK smartphone in five years, hoping to challenge global tech giants. The MoD is pressing YouTube to remove ‘Russian state’ hoax videos of the UK Defence Secretary and paleontologists finally have an answer as to where the world’s most expensive fossil is. 


Scientists discover a new species of glass frogs with transparent bellies, people with specific gene mutations are ‘less likely to have children’ and a study finds that apples today are way better than their wild ancestors. 


Plus, 5,000 planets have now been discovered outside our solar system, orchards are vanishing from the landscape and a paralysed man asks for a beer using just his thoughts after a brain implant.


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