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What’s next for Nasa’s Bennu asteroid samples?

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The Osiris-Rex capsule with 250g of space rock and dust parachuted to earth after a seven-year, four billion-mile mission. UK government concerns over policing AI bioweapons. While, the UN says human rights treaties apply to artificial intelligence. Organ problems in post-hospital Covid patients.

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