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Beetle named after environmental activist Greta Thunberg

21st February 202021st February 2020 Editorial Team beetle, Britain, environment, Greta Thunberg

Britain’s Natural History Museum has named a tiny, blind and wingless beetle after 17-year-old environmental activist Greta Thunberg.

Artist's representation of diamond rain falling in space

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‘Diamond rain’ falls on Saturn and Jupiter

21st February 202021st February 2020 Editorial Team diamonds, Jupiter, saturn

Diamond rain is very likely to form in storm-ravaged regions of Saturn, and in enormous quantities — as much as a 1,000 tonnes of diamonds every year.

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World’s oldest forest discovered in the U.S.

21st February 202021st February 2020 Editorial Team forest, fossils, New York, trees

Scientists have discovered remnants of the world’s oldest fossil forest — a network of trees around 386 million years old — in a sandstone quarry in the US.