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The best new science fiction books of May 2024
A new Stephen King short story collection, an Ursula K. Le Guin reissue and a celebration of cyberpu...
Want to move fast? Look for these materials in you...
Spiked running shoes with a rubbery material between the inner and outer soles, and a stiff plate to...
Running around a 'wall of death' could keep moon s...
Lunar settlers could avoid health problems like muscle wasting by running on the inside of a circula...
Carbon-negative cement can be made with a mineral ...
A process to dissolve the mineral olivine in acid could provide a plentiful, energy-efficient materi...
Can these awesome rocks become central Asia’s firs...
Long feted by fossil hunters and geologists, if UNESCO recognises the extraordinary rock formation a...
How could we make a solar eclipse happen every day...
Total solar eclipses are astonishing, but travelling to get to one is less so – this episode of Dead...
Most brain monitors sold to consumers don't keep y...
A report found data privacy problems with the vast majority of 30 companies that sell neurotechnolog...
Australia places A$1 billion bet on quantum comput...
A joint investment by the Australian federal government and the government of Queensland makes PsiQu...
How India has slowly but surely become a major pla...
India’s space agency has been remarkably successful in recent years, growing the country’s prestige ...
India is poised to become a climate leader, but is...
As the world's third largest emitter of greenhouse gases, climate policy decisions taken by India wi...
Plastic pollution treaty would be 'failure' withou...
Plastic production is responsible for more greenhouse gas emissions than flying – at a summit in Can...
Foxes' skulls are specially adapted for diving int...
Red foxes and Arctic foxes dive headfirst into snow at up to 4 metres per second to catch small rode...
English oaks can withstand warming – but other tre...
Climate change means many tree species planted today in Europe won’t survive to the end of the centu...
A new approach to dark matter could help us solve ...
Cosmological puzzles are tempting astronomers to rethink our simple picture of the universe – and as...
Genetically modified golden rice may yet succeed i...
A court in the Philippines revoked the permit to grow rice genetically modified to boost vitamin A, ...
Toxic chemicals from car tyres can get into soil a...
Governments need to take action to protect people from potentially toxic additives in tyre rubber, s...
AI that determines risk of death helps save lives ...
An AI trained on the heart's electrical activity alerted physicians about patients at high risk of d...
Image-generating AI creates uncanny optical illusi...
Generative AI models designed to create images from text can be adapted to construct complex optical...
