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Banning scary-sounding ideas can comfort but does ...
Recent developments in AI and neurological research may prompt concern. However, placing outright ba...
How could Ukraine stop Russia’s new Oreshnik missi...
Russia’s new ballistic missile flies on a high arc out of Earth’s atmosphere and releases multiple h...
Fossilised droppings tell the story of dinosaurs' ...
An analysis of hundreds of bromalites – fossilised faeces and vomit – shows how changes in diet enab...
We may be about to solve the greatest riddle of el...
Physicists have long wondered why particles can only have an electric charge of +1, -2 or any whole ...
Record-breaking diamond storage can save data for ...
Researchers have used lasers to encode information in diamonds, demonstrating record-breaking data d...
How safe is the US food supply?
Food in the US has a bad rap thanks to outbreaks caused by bacteria, plus processing, additives and ...
Changing a single number among billions can destro...
Today's huge AI models are composed of several billion numbers known as weights and changing just on...
Orcas have begun wearing salmon hats again – and w...
About 40 years ago, researchers noticed a population of orcas had begun swimming around with dead fi...
Forest schools don't actually boost most children'...
Swapping classrooms for the woods doesn't appear to improve most children's mental health, but they ...
The radical treatments bringing people back from t...
Reperfusion technologies that can reanimate human brains are raising the possibility that death coul...
Salt batteries are finally shaping up – that's goo...
With lithium in short supply, sodium-ion batteries might offer cheap energy storage with less enviro...
What will it take to solve our planet's plastic po...
Countries are meeting in South Korea this week to hash out the final details of a global treaty aime...
Older people may have better immunity against bird...
Most people born before 1968 have antibodies against flu viruses similar to the H5N1 strain circulat...
How a unique puppy kindergarten lab put the scienc...
Most dogs aren't bred to feel at ease in our homes, but scientists studying puppy cognition have fou...
This start-up is removing carbon from a polluted N...
Projects to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere by making the oceans less acidic are popping u...
Why gene editors want to treat fetuses when they a...
Gene editing in the womb could be more effective than the same treatment after birth, as fetal cells...
Anger over COP29 finance deal threatens progress o...
A reluctant deal finalised at the COP29 climate summit isn't generous enough to encourage nations to...
Exploding interstellar space rocks could explain m...
Enigmatic phenomena called fast radio bursts might be caused by interstellar objects colliding with ...
