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Zapping the brain with electricity makes us easier...
Electrically stimulating part of the brain makes people more susceptible to hypnosis, which has show...
There’s a 5% chance of AI causing humans to go ext...
In the largest survey yet of AI researchers, a majority say there is a non-trivial risk of human ext...
Humanoid robot acts out prompts like it's playing ...
A large language model can translate written instructions into code for a robot’s movement, enabling...
Celebrating dark skies at a festival in deepest De...
At a novel sci-art festival celebrating the many cultural and scientific needs for dark skies in a t...
Spare a moment to think about the possibilities in...
Cosmology has transformed our understanding of time past and the aeons to come, pointing to a deep f...
How Bulgarian yogurt could help us colonise Mars
Feedback reads up on the latest research into how Bulgarian-style yogurt could enhance astronauts' p...
1.75-billion-year-old fossils help explain how pho...
Fossilised bacteria from Australia contain the earliest evidence of photosynthetic structures called...
Membrane-destroying drug works against antibiotic-...
A newly discovered drug treated infections in mice caused by a strain of bacteria that is resistant ...
Most large fishing boats go untracked as ‘dark ves...
An AI analysis of satellite images reveals fishing, shipping and offshore development activities wor...
Supernova neutrinos could break physics – if we ca...
Neutrinos produced inside an exploding star could betray exotic particles that would lead to a deepe...
How to spot the Quadrantids meteor shower on 3 and...
The 2024 Quadrantids meteor shower will peak on 3 and 4 January. While moonlight may get in the way,...
World's first tunnel to a magma chamber could unle...
In Iceland, scientists are planning to drill two boreholes to a reservoir of liquid rock. One will g...
Sharks can be deterred from beaches by catching an...
A non-lethal method of catching great white sharks and releasing them 500 metres further out to sea ...
Strange material made of soap could be used for ph...
The first ever soap films with chemically distinct sides are a step towards cheap soap-based devices...
Severe covid-19 infections linked to increased ris...
People with severe covid-19 infections are more than 4 times as likely to later be diagnosed with sc...
Tiny T. rex fossils may be distinct species – but ...
Palaeontologists can’t agree on whether fossils from several small dinosaurs represent juvenile Tyra...
Extreme close-up of Jupiter’s moon Io captured by ...
NASA’s Juno spacecraft flew past Io on 30 December and took one of our best pictures yet of this moo...
Why do people get postnatal anxiety and how can we...
The birth of a child is a happy time for most, but overwhelming anxiety can take hold for some paren...
