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Fastest exoplanet ever is dragged through space at 1.2 million mph by hypervelocity star

Astronomers have discovered what seems to be a star racing through the Milky Way at 1.2 million mph, dragging a Neptune-sized planet along for the ride.

Space

What are rogue planets?

Discover the strange world of rogue planets left to wander the cosmos untethered to any star.

Space

Will My Electric Car Leave Me Stranded?

Can an EV really run down to 0% and get you stuck somewhere? It's increasingly unlikely—so long as you plan ahead.

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First pig kidney in a human: Is this the future of transplants?

Could the successful transplant of a gene-edited pig kidney to a human spell the end of the organ shortage crisis?

Al Jazeera

World’s second human recipient of pig heart dies six weeks after operation

Lawrence Faucette, who had terminal heart disease, received a pig heart genetically altered to be compatible with humans

The Guardian - US

Surgeons perform second pig heart transplant, trying to save a dying man

The same Maryland team last year performed the world’s first transplant of a genetically modified pig heart into another dying man, David Bennett, who survived just two months.

The Hindu

The Sure Things: Ex-gym owner Georgie Dansey relies on people power

Georgie Dansey’s campaign for Hamilton East will almost be child’s-play compared with the tense, scandal-driven Hamilton West by-election she was thrust into late last year. Emma Hatton reports.

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400 Earth-size rogue planets could be wandering the Milky Way

When NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Telescope comes online, it could be capable of spotting as many as 400 Earth-size rogue planets, and that might merely be the tip of the iceberg.

Space

George Martin played on more Beatles songs than you think: are these his best piano solos and orchestral arrangements?

David Bennett lists the 27 songs that feature the Fab Four's producer's greatest contributions

MusicRadar

Bride 'left scared of man she loved' after he poured boiling water over her

'Jealous' Christopher Stanway attacked his bride of six months, accusing her of having an affair with a neighbour

Wales Online

The top health stories of 2022: The breakthroughs and the oddities

The biggest public health story of 2022 was how Australia dealt with COVID-normal. There were some great breakthroughs, and a few laughs.

The New Daily

Ring doorbell captured woman's foul mouthed rant and abuse to sister in law

The drunken outburst came after hearing she'd been reported to social services

Liverpool Echo

Missing man found after 'unattended' car discovered at Scots loch by cops

UPDATE: Police Scotland have confirmed that David Bennett has been found.

Daily Record

This company is bioengineering pig kidneys and livers for possible transplant into humans

In an Minnesota lab, clear containers hold pig kidneys and livers that scientists hope will someday be transplantable in humans.

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‘We can continue Pratchett’s efforts’: the gamers keeping Discworld alive

A text-based, multiplayer role-playing game based on the works of Terry Pratchett, the Discworld MUD has been in constant service for 30 years

Newsroom.co.nz

Council plan rattles Dunedin musos

Bands and fans are on edge as a key incubator of the southern city’s famed sound faces getting noise-averse new neighbours.

Wales Online

Dad has full back tattoo in honour of his children including five babies who sadly died

Proud family man David Bennett got inked to document his baby loss journey with wife Katherine

Daily Mirror

Doting dad gets huge back tattoo of his seven living children - and five who died

David Bennett had the masterpiece done to celebrate his 50th birthday and includes the children they have sadly lost

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Woman's 'living nightmare' with stalker ex who scratched abusive messages on car

Harrison Wild would send his victim abusive messages and threatened to harm himself during his three-month campaign of terror.

Irish Mirror

Obsessed stalker threatened to set woman on fire in terrifying ordeal

On one occasion, the 31-year-old victim was approached by Asghar and passed a piece of paper asking her for her phone number, said David Bennett, prosecuting at the city's crown court

Daily Mirror

'Gene that regulates nerve cells can help chronic pain which affects millions worldwide'

Researchers in Oxford have found an answer to “pain wind-up”, which has proved to be a factor in most pain disorders, after discovering a gene

The Independent UK

Pig organ transplants inch closer with testing in the dead

Researchers at New York University transplanted pig hearts into two brain-dead people over the last month, the latest in a string of developments in the long quest to one day save human lives with animal organs

The Independent UK

Pig heart transplant recipient died of heart failure

‘But we don’t consider this a setback,’ says doctor who co-led groundbreaking surgery

Tribune News Service

Patient given pig heart transplant died of heart failure, study finds

BALTIMORE — Doctors at the University of Maryland School of Medicine have concluded that a man who received a first-of-its-kind pig-heart transplant in January died two months later from heart failure. Though the reason for the failure remains under investigation.

The Guardian - UK

Nerve-cooling implant could offer pain relief alternative to opioids, say researchers

Device which can dissolve in the body represents an ‘engineering approach to treating pain’

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