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‘Love hormone' may not be crucial for social bondi...
Prairie voles still form social bonds without oxytocin sensors in the brain. The findings challenge ...
Taxing sugary drinks may not cut obesity as much a...
A study finds the UK’s 2018 sugar tax prevented 5000 cases of obesity in school girls in England, bu...
We can reduce homelessness if we follow the scienc...
Decades of research have shown that focusing on housing, without making sobriety or mental health tr...
Preterm babies have a similar BMI at adolescence t...
By the time premature babies reach 14 to 19 years of age, they have, on average, a similar body mass...
Earth's 'geological thermostat' is too slow to pre...
Rock weathering has helped keep Earth’s climate relatively stable for millions of years, but the pro...
The size of skin cancer cells may affect how they ...
Smaller melanoma skin cancer cells may be more vulnerable to drugs that block DNA repair, while larg...
AI has designed bacteria-killing proteins from scr...
An AI was tasked with creating proteins with anti-microbial properties. Researchers then created a s...
Supernovae might be a good place to hunt for alien...
Other intelligent civilisations may send transmissions after a bright galactic event like a supernov...
‘Forbidden’ planet somehow escaped consumption by ...
The planet 8 Ursae Minoris b should have been destroyed when its star became a red giant, but it con...
The US government is suing Google – again
A new US government lawsuit alleges that Google has harmed innovation and raised costs for internet ...
Why gene variant impairing alcohol breakdown raise...
A gene variant that causes the "alcohol flush" reaction increases the risk of heart disease by causi...
Early relatives of primates lived in the Arctic 52...
Analysis of fossilised teeth from Ellesmere Island, Canada, reveals that extinct relatives of monkey...
Flames that don't flicker could make engines more ...
Producing flickerless flames usually requires artificially low pressure or gravity. Researchers have...
AI legal assistant's first appearance in court has...
DoNotPay's AI was due to represent a defendant in court for the first time next month over a speedin...
Fruit bats get swabbed to look for diseases that c...
Researchers are testing fruit bats in the Republic of the Congo for viruses such as Ebola to learn m...
ChatGPT can find and fix bugs in computer code
The AI chatbot ChatGPT is as good as standard machine learning approaches at fixing bugs in code, an...
Shortest pulse of electrons ever created lasts jus...
A record-breaking short pulse of electrons just 53 billionths of a billionth of a second long has be...
Skin patch makes ultrasound images of your heart a...
A prototype skin patch produced images that were comparable to those of a standard handheld device u...
