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Fractal pattern identified at molecular scale in n...
An enzyme in a cyanobacterium can take the unusual form a triangle containing ever-smaller triangula...
How AI mathematicians might finally deliver human-...
Artificial intelligence is taking on some of the hardest problems in pure maths, arguably demonstrat...
Treating gum disease may ward off an irregular hea...
Inflamed gum tissue may allow bacteria in the mouth to enter the bloodstream, which could affect the...
Mathematician wins Turing award for harnessing ran...
Avi Wigderson has won the 2023 Turing award for his work on understanding how randomness can shape a...
Phone batteries could last 50% longer if more 5G t...
Adding more masts could reduce the overall energy use of phone networks by two-thirds and boost hand...
Oral vaccine prevents recurring UTIs for nine year...
An oral vaccine in the form of a pineapple-flavoured spray prevented recurrent urinary tract infecti...
Australia’s Indigenous people were making pottery ...
An excavation on an island in the Coral Sea shows that Indigenous Australians were producing ceramic...
Peter Higgs: Physicist who theorised the Higgs bos...
Nobel prizewinning theoretical physicist Peter Higgs has died aged 94. He proposed the particle that...
One of the biggest mysteries of cosmology may fina...
The expansion rate of the universe, measured by the Hubble constant, has been one of the most contro...
Are you languishing in life? Here’s how to find yo...
If your life feels aimless and joyless, you may be languishing, says psychologist Corey Keyes — who ...
Northern white rhino could be saved from extinctio...
We have enough genetic material to bring back the northern white rhino, but doing so won’t be easy
Prosthetic hands are easier to control using unrel...
Random-seeming hand gestures seem to help people control prosthetic hands better than ones that mimi...
The multiverse could be much, much bigger than we ...
A new way of interpreting the elusive mathematics of quantum mechanics could fundamentally change ou...
Physicists created an imaginary magnetic field in ...
Researchers have used quantum light to create a magnetic field with a strength that is measured in i...
Dumping green sand in shallow seas could let them ...
Releasing 1 gigatonne of ground-up olivine on coastal shelves each year could help lower atmospheric...
March 2024 is the 10th consecutive month to break ...
Every month since April 2023 has been the hottest on record, as climate continues its record-breakin...
Eclipse 2024: 5 of the best pictures of the total ...
On 8 April, a total solar eclipse passed over Mexico, the US and Canada – here are some of the most ...
AI pop-ups can help you stop doomscrolling on your...
An AI program can learn from smartphone users' behaviours in order to send timely pop-up reminders a...
