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Bird flu confirmed in person who had contact with ...
A person in Texas has been infected with bird flu after exposure to dairy cows who had the virus – i...
How the infamous Pitcairn Island became a model of...
Pitcairn Island, one of the remotest places on Earth, was once home to mutineers. Today it’s a trail...
‘Yell at your robot’ technique teaches robots hous...
AI allows robots to listen to verbal instructions while learning to correctly perform household task...
How solar eclipses have been revealing cosmic secr...
Records of total solar eclipses go back thousands of years, and in all that time they have allowed s...
Why vigorous exercise could inadvertently lead to ...
Intense exercise may make the body compensate for energy used during this vigorous activity by reduc...
The best new science fiction books of April 2024
There’s an abundance of exciting new science fiction out in April, by writers including The Three-Bo...
AI chatbots beat humans at persuading their oppone...
When people were challenged to debate contentious topics with a human or GPT-4, they were more likel...
Physicists have worked out how to melt any materia...
A new equation shows a surprisingly simple relationship between pressure and the temperature needed ...
Heatwaves now last much longer than they did in th...
A global analysis of heatwaves over a span of 40 years shows that they are getting more frequent, mo...
Unprecedented GPS jamming attack affects 1600 airc...
A 63-hour-long marathon of GPS jamming attacks disrupted global satellite navigation systems for hun...
Tooth loss linked to early signs of Alzheimer’s di...
A brain region critical for memory is smaller in older adults with fewer than 10 teeth than in those...
DNA sequencing may give hope to critically ill adu...
Genome analysis as a way of helping people with baffling medical conditions has so far mainly been s...
The ambitious plans to study the sun during April'...
Solar scientists have been preparing for years for a 4-minute window, during the total solar eclipse...
Hyperelastic gel is one of the stretchiest materia...
A super-stretchy hydrogel can stretch to 15 times its original length and return to its initial shap...
Japan’s SLIM moon lander surprisingly survived a s...
The Smart Lander for Investigating Moon spacecraft has sent back images after surviving its second l...
Could bone marrow transplants transmit Alzheimer's...
The mainstream view is that Alzheimer's starts in the brain, but researchers were able to transfer t...
Mathematicians are bitterly divided over a controv...
An attempt to settle a decade-long argument over a controversial proof by mathematician Shinichi Moc...
Chair for gamers boosts player performance and pre...
Gamers seemed to be more comfortable after playing in a specialist gaming chair compared with a stan...
