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People prefer AI-generated poems to Shakespeare an...
Readers give higher ratings to AI-generated poetry than the works of poets such as William Shakespea...
Bizarre test shows light can actually cast its own...
With the help of a ruby cube and two laser beams, researchers made one ray of light cast a shadow wh...
Watch autonomous cars do doughnuts and drift sidew...
Driverless cars can now do doughnuts and drift like stunt drivers, skidding sideways around corners ...
Starship launch flight 6: When is Elon Musk’s Spac...
Elon Musk’s SpaceX is preparing for the sixth test flight of Starship, the world's most powerful roc...
World’s largest coral is 300 years old and was dis...
The mega-coral measures 34 metres by 32 metres – making it larger than a blue whale – and it is thou...
Mounting evidence points to air pollution as a cau...
Air pollution has been linked to eczema before, and now a study of more than 280,000 people has stre...
12,000-year-old stones may be oldest example of wh...
Dozens of perforated pebbles from an archaeological site in Israel may be early examples of spindle ...
We must use genetic technologies now to avert the ...
Food production is responsible for more than a third of greenhouse gas emissions. To get everyone th...
Why we now think the myopia epidemic can be slowed...
Rates of near-sightedness are rising all over the world. But solutions to the epidemic are coming in...
Sweeter tomatoes are coming soon thanks to CRISPR ...
Selection for bigger tomatoes has made the fruits less sweet, but now it has been shown that gene ed...
Millions of phones create most complete map ever o...
Researchers mapped Earth’s ionosphere, part of the upper atmosphere, using signal data from 40 milli...
Exquisite bird fossil provides clues to the evolut...
Palaeontologists have pieced together the brain structure of a bird that lived 80 million years ago ...
Drought, fires and fossil fuels push CO2 emissions...
An annual accounting of CO2 emissions from burning fossil fuels and land use change finds no sign em...
Migratory birds can use Earth's magnetic field lik...
Eurasian reed warblers don’t just get a sense of direction from Earth’s magnetic field – they can al...
Orbital wins the Booker prize: “I see it as a kind...
Samantha Harvey has won the UK's top fiction prize for a novel that takes place over 24 hours on the...
Google Street View helps map how 600,000 trees gro...
AI and Google Street View have created 'digital twins' of living trees in North American cities – pa...
Jets of liquid bounce off hot surfaces without eve...
Droplets of fluid have been known to hover above a hot surface, but a new experiment suggests the sa...
Next Mauna Loa eruption could be forecast months i...
An analysis of crystals in lava from the 2022 eruption of Mauna Loa has revealed an unknown magma re...
