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Why the problem of P versus NP is worth $1 million...
Mathematician Tom Crawford explains what P versus NP means – and what makes the problem so fiendishl...
Space may be filled with more antimatter than we c...
A detector on the International Space Station found signatures of unexpectedly abundant antimatter –...
Astronauts could one day end up eating asteroids
Bacteria grown from carbon compounds in asteroids could be turned into a kind of nutritionally balan...
El Niño pattern can bring wet weather to UK one ye...
El Niño and La Niña cycles driven by ocean temperatures in the Pacific can influence weather in the ...
Hera mission set to revisit asteroid after NASA's ...
The European Space Agency is sending a probe to get a closer look at the asteroid Dimorphos, which h...
Parts of Antarctica are turning green at an 'astou...
Satellite images of the Antarctic Peninsula and nearby islands reveal that the area covered by veget...
China's answer to SpaceX's Starlink is also threat...
The first 18 satellites of a planned Chinese mega constellation are brighter than all but 500 stars ...
Stem cell transplant gives hope for treating age-r...
A monkey that performed poorly on vision tests did much better after having a stem cell transplant t...
Signals from exotic new stars could hide in gravit...
A computer simulation suggests that some collisions between exotic, hypothetical stars would make sp...
Ants can be used to make yogurt – and now we know ...
A traditional yogurt-making practice from south-eastern Europe uses live ants as a starter, with the...
Rapamycin could make an epilepsy drug much safer d...
The epilepsy medication sodium valproate is linked to developmental problems in fetuses, but lab stu...
Which AI chatbot is best at avoiding disinformatio...
AI chatbots from Google and Microsoft sometimes parrot disinformation when answering questions about...
Drone versus drone combat is bringing a new kind o...
Machines are fighting machines on the Ukrainian battlefield, as a technological arms race has given ...
Google says its AI designs chips better than human...
Google DeepMind claims its AlphaChip AI method can deliver “superhuman” chip designs that are alread...
Ancient DNA tells story of toddler who lived in It...
A young boy who lived towards the end of the last glacial period had dark skin, blue eyes and a cong...
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Can AI and new technology fix our dysfunctional de...
Democracy across the world isn’t working the way it should. But scientists and technologists are com...
