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What were ancient humans thinking when they began ...
Claims that a small-brained hominin called Homo naledi buried its dead raise intriguing questions ab...
Gold can be heated to 14 times its melting point w...
With fast heating, sheets of gold can shoot past the theoretical maximum temperature a solid can hav...
AI beats goalkeepers at predicting which way penal...
By analysing videos of penalty kicks, a deep learning model was able to predict whether a shot would...
Ancient ‘terror birds’ may have been no match for ...
A 13-million-year-old leg bone from an enormous flightless bird carries crocodilian tooth marks, sho...
Cleaner air has increased the number of city heatw...
Reducing air pollution is critical for improving public health, but it has brought big climate trade...
DeepMind and OpenAI claim gold in International Ma...
Two AI models have achieved gold medal standard for the first time in a prestigious competition for ...
Tiny elusive gecko rediscovered on one of the Gala...
Leaf-toed geckos were thought to be locally extinct on Rabida Island, but the diminutive reptiles ha...
How regrowing your own teeth could replace denture...
For the more than 7 per cent of people over the age of 20 who don’t have any of their own teeth, the...
The pandemic may have aged our brains even before ...
The covid-19 pandemic changed our lives, and the world, in many ways - and now we are starting to un...
Ancient animal's fossilised brain prompts rethink ...
A 500-million-year-old sea creature called Mollisonia shared a similar brain structure to modern spi...
Small, stocky dinosaur related to Velociraptor nam...
Shri rapax, known from a fossil found in Mongolia, had strong hands and teeth which may have helped ...
Gluten may not actually trigger many irritable bow...
People who follow a gluten-free diet in the hope of it calming their irritable bowel syndrome may ac...
Sprinkling limestone on farms may offer an unexpec...
Farms commonly spread crushed limestone on fields to make the soil less acidic – and this practice c...
Four-day working week may boost our health and per...
Employees who trialled a four-day work week for six months said they slept better and felt that thei...
Octopuses fall for the rubber hand illusion just l...
Octopuses can be tricked into thinking that a fake arm is part of their body, suggesting they have a...
We've discovered a door to a hidden part of realit...
Physicists would dearly love to find new particles, but there's no sign of them in colliders like th...
Should we preserve the pre-AI internet before it i...
The rise of AI-generated content since 2022 risks making it impossible to know when information was ...
Immortal stars could live forever by 'eating' dark...
A computer simulation of stars near the centre of our galaxy offers an explanation for their mysteri...
