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Image copyright Getty Images As genome sequencing costs continue to fall and artificial intelligence gets to work on analysing all this new data, the era of personalised medicine draws closer. More than half of Icelanders have now had their precise genetic make-up sequenced and analysed. Tens of thousands of their genomes have been fully sequenced …

Image copyright AFP Image caption Rosewood trees grow across West Africa About six million rosewood trees have been cut down in Ghana for illegal export to China since 2012, an environmental group says. The rare species, which takes 100 years to grow, is mostly used to make imperial-style furniture in China. The report blames corrupt …

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Native slugs are dwarfed by the orange invader Giant orange slugs up to 15cm (6in) long are causing alarm in central Moscow – the latest place they have turned up since spreading from Spain. The Arion vulgaris slugs are monsters compared with most other slugs and are serious pests, …

Image copyright Kik-Plastic Image caption Kiko Matthews has done more than 70 beach cleans around the UK with volunteers A woman says she has collected more than 3.4 tonnes (3,400kg) of plastic pollution from the UK coastline during an 85-day cycle challenge. Kiko Matthews, 38, who rode 6,863km (4,265 miles) around the UK coastline during …

Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionThe Swedish teen behind the climate strikes Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg has accepted a ride across the Atlantic by boat to attend two key climate conferences. The teenager will make the journey aboard the Malizia II, a high-speed 18-metre (60ft) yacht built to race around the …

Image copyright Getty Images Superbugs resistant to emergency antibiotics are spreading in hospitals, a Europe-wide study shows. Drugs called carbapenems are used when an infection cannot be treated with anything else. The spread of resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae was “extremely concerning”, researchers from the Sanger Institute said. And they warned other bugs could become resistant too …

Image caption Some government offices have been shut down to allow civil servants to take part in the campaign Ethiopia has planted more than 350 million trees in a day, officials say, in what they believe is a world record. Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed is leading the project, which aims to counter the effects of …

Image caption Cambridge University Botanic Garden measured 38.7C (101.7F) on Thursday beating the previous UK record of 38.5C (101.3F), set in Kent in 2003 The UK’s highest-ever temperature has been officially recorded in Cambridge, the Met Office has confirmed. Cambridge University Botanic Garden measured 38.7C (101.7F) on Thursday beating the previous UK record of 38.5C …

Image copyright Celeste Labedz Image caption The cape Celeste took to Alaska had been created for a Halloween costume depicting Princess Elsa from Disney’s Frozen While Celeste Labedz knew quite a few fellow scientists would appreciate the picture of her dressed up as a “glaciologist Princess Elsa”, she had no idea the image would become …

A semi-autonomous robot designed to operate in hostile environments has been developed by Nasa. The robot is able to use human tools and can plot its own path safely across difficult terrain to a location picked by its operator. Nasa hopes the robot might one day help build colonies on the Moon or Mars, but …