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Starship launch 4: When is the next SpaceX test fl...
SpaceX is getting ready to launch its massive Starship rocket, perhaps as soon as 5 June, and we hav...
What would happen if we pulled out Mars’s iron cor...
Mars is a planet much beloved and much maligned, and in this episode of Dead Planets Society it is g...
Can Google fix its disastrous new AI search tool?
Google's AI Overviews tool can offer impressive answers to search queries, but it will also make up ...
Ancient Egyptian skull shows oldest known attempt ...
Cut marks on a 4000-year-old skull suggest ancient Egyptian doctors tried to treat a man with nasoph...
These scientific rules of connection can superchar...
Several psychological biases undermine our ability to make new friends. Understand them and you’ll k...
The behavioural science that can help us choose mo...
Sophie Attwood is working with the food industry to promote some surprising psychological tricks des...
Hackers are using AI to find software bugs - but t...
Artificial intelligence models similar to ChatGPT are able to identify errors in computer code, lett...
Can seaweed provide the minerals we need for clean...
Mining for minerals needed for wind turbines and other clean energy technologies has a high environm...
Asthma treated in mice using offshoot of CAR T-cel...
A single dose of genetically engineered immune cells reduced asthma symptoms in mice for at least a ...
Active lava flows on Venus raise the stakes for fu...
Observations made by the Magellan spacecraft in the 1990s include signs of recent lava flows, highli...
Quantum 'arrow of time' suggests early universe ha...
One way to explain why time only moves forward is the quantum arrow of time, and it has major implic...
Is North America set for another bad wildfire smok...
Smoke from wildfires burning in Canada and Mexico is already worsening air quality in the US, but so...
Fossil trove reveals three new species of ancient ...
A set of Australian fossils offers a rare glimpse of the ancient relatives of platypuses and echidna...
Tamiflu seems to relieve noise-induced hearing los...
Mice that were given a high dose of the antiviral drug oseltamivir phosphate, better known as Tamifl...
Hungry deer may have driven tiny plant evolution o...
On Yakushima island, sika deer might have forced flora to shrink as small as a tenth of the size of ...
AI can predict landmine areas from satellite image...
An AI model can identify landmine areas with up to 92 per cent accuracy, which could help to speed u...
Tiny black holes hiding in the sun could trace out...
If our solar system and even our sun contain tiny black holes formed just after the big bang, they s...
An amazing great bustard gets ready for a new natu...
Birds: Brilliant and Bizarre, now on view at London’s Natural History Museum, showcases the extraord...
