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Glassy gel is hard as plastic and stretches 7 time...
A material made of liquid salt mixed with polymers is extremely stretchy but still as strong as the ...
Is an old NASA probe about to redraw the frontier ...
The New Horizons mission to Pluto, now zooming out of the Kuiper belt, has made a discovery that cou...
Rare corpse flower that stinks of rotting flesh bl...
A giant flower, one of the smelliest in the world, is currently blooming at the Royal Botanic Garden...
Farmland near Chernobyl nuclear reactor is finally...
Radiation surveys suggest that it is now safe to grow food on farmland that has been unused since th...
Why herbs evolved to smell and taste so delicious
Humans may have shaped the development of aromatic herbs like lavender and mint, but did herbs also ...
Pluto and the largest moon of Neptune might be sib...
The chemical composition of Pluto and Triton suggests they originated in the same region of the oute...
Driverless cars are mostly safer than humans – but...
Driverless cars seem to have fewer accidents than human drivers under routine conditions, but higher...
The truth about social media and screen time's imp...
There are many scary claims about excess time on digital devices for children and teenagers. Here’s ...
Chemists invoke bizarre Maxwell's demon on the lar...
A 19th-century thought experiment that was once thought to defy the laws of thermodynamics has now b...
Ukraine is using AI to manage the removal of Russi...
There are so many Russian landmines across Ukraine that removing them could take 700 years. To prior...
Shipping companies are testing biofuel made from c...
Cashew nut shells are a source of low-emissions biofuel, which is being tested in several ships, but...
Time crystals may make quantum computers more reli...
Extremely cold atoms that perpetually move in repeating patterns could be a promising building block...
Mathematicians find odd shapes that roll like a wh...
Not content with shapes in two or three dimensions, mathematicians like to explore objects in any nu...
Why humanity’s survival may depend on us becoming ...
Tribalism can be toxic, yet we need more of it if we are to meet today’s global challenges, argues o...
Watch a humanoid robot driving a car extremely slo...
A robot named Musashi with a human-like skeleton and musculature can perform basic driving tasks – b...
Google's new quantum computer may help us understa...
By combining two approaches to quantum computing into one device, Google has been able to simulate t...
Light-activated drugs could keep sleep-deprived mi...
A US military program led by DARPA is modifying the stimulant drug dextroamphetamine so it can be sw...
Einstein's theory was wrong about black holes made...
The theory of relativity predicts black holes should be able to form from light alone, but incorpora...
