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Rachel Kushner’s Booker-shortlisted Creation Lake ...
For an undercover operative, Sadie Smith takes unnecessary risks as she infiltrates an eco-activist ...
AI tweaks to photos and videos can alter our memor...
It has become trivially easy to use artificial intelligence to edit images or generate video to remo...
Camellia oil could be the greenest cooking oil – a...
Replacing some existing vegetable oil crops with camellia oil could boost production while reducing ...
Planet in the 'forbidden zone' of dead star could ...
A distant planet should have been consumed when its star expanded to become a red giant, perhaps off...
How much should we worry about the health effects ...
A flurry of studies has found microplastics in nearly every organ in the human body, from the brain ...
We now know who was cannibalised on the doomed Fra...
DNA and genealogical evidence reveal, for the first time, the identity of cannibalised remains recov...
Dinosaurs may have run like emus by keeping one fo...
It seems to be more energy efficient for emus to keep one foot on the ground when running at a moder...
Geoengineering is now essential to saving the Arct...
If we want to preserve the dwindling ice in the Arctic, cutting our emissions is no longer enough – ...
Jet stream shifts are linked to fires, failed harv...
Tree ring data reveals the impact a fluctuating jet stream has had on Europe for 700 years – and she...
Chemists discovered the first new chemical bond in...
Though it was first predicted in the 1930s, chemists have just now managed to create a covalent bond...
AIs get worse at answering simple questions as the...
Using more training data and computational power is meant to make AIs more reliable, but tests sugge...
World's oldest cheese found on 3500-year-old Chine...
DNA and protein analysis has identified a white substance smeared on mummies in China as a kind of k...
The brain has its own microbiome. Here's what it m...
Neuroscientists have been surprised to discover that the human brain is teeming with microbes, and w...
Smart TVs take snapshots of what you watch multipl...
Smart TVs from Samsung and LG take screenshots of what you are watching even when you are using them...
Pain relief from the placebo effect may not actual...
Dopamine was long thought to play a part in the placebo effect for pain relief, but a new study is q...
Axolotls seem to pause their biological clocks and...
In most vertebrates, a pattern of chemical marks on the genome is a reliable indicator of age, but i...
The fascinating truth about why common sense isn't...
New research is revealing that common sense is a lot more idiosyncratic than we thought, with import...
Are superconducting power lines the key to a clean...
High-temperature superconducting cables that could transform the power grid may be increasingly viab...
