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Polaris Dawn mission is one giant leap for private...
The success of the all-civilian spacewalk on SpaceX’s Polaris Dawn mission shows that private space ...
Antidote to deadly pesticides boosts bee survival
Feeding bees edible bits of hydrogel increases their odds of surviving pesticide exposure by 30 per ...
OpenAI’s warnings about risky AI are mostly just m...
A powerful new AI called o1 is the most dangerous that OpenAI has ever released, the firm claims – b...
Cats have brain activity recorded with the help of...
Custom-made wool caps have enabled scientists to record electroencephalograms in awake cats for the ...
Complex chemicals found on Enceladus improve prosp...
The Cassini mission’s samples from Saturn’s moon Enceladus have signs of various organic molecules t...
Cause and effect may not actually be muddled in th...
The direction of cause and effect was brought into question for quantum objects more than a decade a...
Weather forecasts could warn about events made wor...
Thanks to advances in weather simulation, forecasts of heatwaves and hurricanes could soon come with...
Blood test could diagnose ALS with up to 97 per ce...
ALS, the most common form of motor neuron disease, can take a long time to diagnose, but a blood tes...
Ig Nobel prizes 2024: The unexpected science that ...
From drunk worms to mammals that breath through their anuses, founder Marc Abrahams on the winners o...
The deepfakes of Trump and Biden that you are most...
Experiments show that viewers can usually identify video deepfakes of famous politicians – but fake ...
Mega El Niños may have played a part in the Permia...
Extreme weather events lasting more than a decade could have killed off forests 250 million years ag...
Greenland landslide caused freak wave that shook E...
Seismologists were mystified by a strange signal that persisted for nine days in 2023 – now its sour...
Another extreme low for Antarctic sea ice signals ...
An area of missing Antarctic sea ice twice the size of Texas adds to concerns that the ice has seen ...
SpaceX Polaris Dawn crew complete 'stand-up' civil...
A groundbreaking civilian spacewalk saw two astronauts partially exit a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule w...
Visible aurora spotted for the first time on Mars ...
If you were standing on Mars as it was hit by a solar flare, you might be able to see an aurora just...
One dose of a smallpox vaccine still gives good pr...
A single dose of a smallpox vaccine seems to lower the risk of catching mpox by around 60 per cent, ...
Why everyone needs to stop joking that they're "a ...
Far from being a behavioural quirk, obsessive-compulsive disorder is a debilitating condition with c...
Genome of Neanderthal fossil reveals lost tribe cu...
Analysis of DNA from a Neanderthal fossil found in a French cave indicates that it belonged to a gro...
