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The sun has a north pole but no spacecraft has ever photographed it. Now the European Space Agency has cleverly pieced a together picture of it using other images.

• Amazon is testing out its cashierless technology in bigger stores, The Wall Street Journal reports.
• Amazon’s cashierless checkout tech tracks the items that shoppers take from shelves and charges them automatically.
• The Journal reports Amazon could roll the tech out to Whole Foods.

Amazon is testing out its cashierless checkout technology in bigger stores — with one eye on Whole Foods, according to The Wall Street Journal.

Sources told the Journal that Amazon is testing out the futuristic tech — which tracks and charges for the items shoppers take from the shelves — in Seattle, in a space formatted like a large store.

A huge, gaping cave has been discovered hidden in the remote Canadian wilderness, and despite the overwhelming scale of this stunning natural void, researchers suggest it may never have been seen by human eyes before.

Nicknamed the ‘Sarlacc Pit’ after the monstrous pit-dwelling beast in Star Wars, the giant cave – concealed amidst the rugged terrain of British Columbia’s Wells Gray Provincial Park – is so vast its effectively unbelievable, explorers say.

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A ‘signalling issue’ in the cells that form hair was found by New York scientists. This pathway can be stimulated in matured or wounded skin, the study on mice found.

Sure but it makes more sense that there’s not a “lake” or ring of water, rather, a bubbly inferno.

The discovery of a rare gem shows that there an enormous water reservoir in the Earth’s mantle.

HIV treatments have come a long way in the more than 30 years since the virus was first identified.

Powerful antiretroviral drugs (ARVs) can now keep the virus controlled at levels that current tests cannot detect in the blood. Perhaps just as important, people who take these drugs diligently soon after they’re infected are unlikely to pass the virus to others. But the treatment isn’t perfect. Those with HIV need to take a pill every day for the rest of their lives, and even if they do, the virus can easily morph to become resistant to the drugs. That’s why patients on ARV treatment should faithfully monitor their virus and cycle between different combinations of drugs.

Finding new, easier ways to more effectively treat HIV and stop its spread is therefore an urgent priority, and researchers are now looking beyond daily drugs to therapies that might provide people with more lasting protection.

Food experts are learning to love fake beef. By the 22nd century, the real thing may be a rarity.

Food experts like Michael Pollan are learning to love fake beef. Will the real thing even exist in the 22nd century?