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Largest-ever octopus was great white shark of inve...
During the Cretaceous, 19-metre-long predatory octopuses swam the seas, and evidence from their foss...
Do you need to worry about Mythos, Anthropic's com...
A powerful AI kept from public access because of its ability to hack computers with impunity is maki...
Catching a cold can delay cancer from spreading to...
Infecting mice with RSV, a common virus that causes cold-like symptoms, prevented breast cancer cell...
Huge study reveals how Epstein-Barr virus may caus...
The Epstein-Barr virus seems to affect gene expression and cell signalling in a way that causes the ...
98 per cent of meat and dairy sustainability pledg...
The food industry has made big promises to reduce emissions and become more sustainable, but a revie...
We need more radioactive drugs. Can we make them f...
The rise of a new generation of radiotherapies means we will soon need much greater quantities of ra...
Table tennis-playing robot on track to becoming wo...
A robot built by Sony AI is rapidly learning how to beat the world's very best table tennis players
Exercise advice for long covid may be doing more h...
Exercise has been touted as a tool for managing and treating long covid, but much of the evidence ha...
Fermat's Last Theorem: still a must-read about a 3...
Simon Singh's exploration of mathematical proof – in particular Pierre de Fermat's last theorem – re...
If a bird flu pandemic starts, we may have an mRNA...
A final-stage trial has started of an mRNA vaccine against the bird flu strain infecting many animal...
Titan’s strange plains may be explained by unusual...
Most of Titan’s surface is oddly flat and smooth, and it may be because it is coated by as much as a...
How we discovered the speed limit of arithmetic – ...
Some seemingly simple sequences of multiplication and addition grow so quickly that they question th...
Game theory explains why the US's goals in Iran ke...
The ongoing conflict around the Strait of Hormuz has become a situation in game theory known as a wa...
Diamonds are surprisingly elastic when you make th...
Experiment with nanodiamonds reveals that they are less rigid than other diamonds, adding to our und...
A whole new way to prevent death from sepsis shows...
Filtering a protein that may cause sepsis out from the blood has shown promising signs for improving...
Parrot uses his broken beak to become a dominant m...
An injured kea with just half a beak has used what's left as a weapon that gives him dominance over ...
Why the right kind of stress is crucial for your h...
Stress is linked to many of our biggest killers, but a growing body of research suggests that certai...
Can you determine your personalised stress score?
“I’m stressed” is a phrase that many of us use, but now there are ways to shed light on how stressed...
