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New Quiet Place movie adds to irrational fears ove...
Sci-fi depictions of extraterrestrial invasions can heighten anxiety about our efforts to make first...
Hot news: abandoned bird's nest 'still there', rep...
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Google's claim of quantum supremacy has been compl...
Google's Sycamore quantum computer was the first to demonstrate quantum supremacy – solving calculat...
Giant salamander-like predator roamed Namibia 280 ...
A fossil found in the Namib desert has been described as a 2.5-metre long predator that resembled a ...
50,000-year-old picture of a pig is the oldest kno...
A new radiometric dating technique reveals that cave paintings on Sulawesi, Indonesia, are even olde...
New anti-ageing vaccines promise to prevent diseas...
It may soon be possible to vaccinate ourselves against the diseases of old age, keeping our body and...
Ancient Denisovans hunted snow leopards on the Tib...
Thousands of bones found in a Tibetan cave have been analysed to learn how mysterious ancient humans...
More than 100 shark species may face major populat...
The egg hatch rate of one shark species may plummet by up to 90 per cent by the end of the century, ...
Multiple nations enact mysterious export controls ...
Identical wording placing limits on the export of quantum computers has appeared in regulations acro...
Computer viruses can spread by using ChatGPT to wr...
Large language models can be abused by malware to help them avoid detection and propagate by craftin...
Iron Age skeletons found under bridge may have bee...
Twenty people may have died 2000 years ago when an Iron Age bridge suddenly collapsed following a ts...
Thousands of US dams may be unprepared for extreme...
Many dams in the US were designed decades ago using estimates of precipitation based on outdated sci...
Tiny chip could enable super-secure quantum Wi-Fi
A 1.8-millimetre-wide silicon chip with over 1000 components could help quantum devices communicate ...
The temperature of your face could help diagnose m...
Small changes to the temperature of your cheeks, nose and around your eyes could let an AI estimate ...
Ants amputate their nestmates’ limbs to save them ...
Ants are one of the few animals that tend to the injuries of their peers, and now it seems they are ...
How ghost cities in the Amazon are rewriting the s...
Remote sensing, including lidar, reveals that the Amazon was once home to millions of people. The em...
AI can predict how monkeys play Pac-Man
An AI model learned to predict the choices made by monkeys and their eye movements while playing Pac...
Incredibly complex mazes discovered in structure o...
The atoms within quasicrystals are arranged in repeating forms, but unlike ordinary crystals they ha...
