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Terminator model has living skin made from fungus
By fusing fungi and robots, researchers hope to create a sustainable and biodegradable skin capable ...
Never-before-seen space explosion is incredibly br...
An explosion that was billions of times brighter than the sun but faded within a month may have occu...
Athletes may look bigger if they wear higher numbe...
Volunteers judged cartoon American football players to be slimmer when they had a lower number on th...
Quantum batteries that charge wirelessly might nev...
Today’s batteries lose efficiency – or “age” – through use, but theoretical quantum batteries might ...
Pumps that beat like the heart could increase ener...
Emulating the pulsating action of the human heart could increase the efficiency of everything from o...
New type of brain cell discovered that acts like h...
A type of brain cell that behaves like a hybrid of neurons and glia has been spotted, and it could e...
Earth has just seen its hottest three-month spell ...
The global average temperature for June, July and August was 16.77°C (62.19°F), beating the previous...
A brief history of the standard model, our theory ...
Our amazing picture of the particles and forces that make reality took decades of invention and expe...
A million years of marijuana: How cannabis became ...
Cannabis was one of the first crops that humans cultivated about 12,000 years ago. But medicinal and...
Gannets prefer to roll either right or left when t...
Northern gannets show a consistent preference for one side or the other when diving to catch fish, w...
Mysterious ancient stones were deliberately made i...
Stone balls found at a site used by early humans about 1.4 million years ago didn’t become round aft...
Our ultra-mobile arm joints may have evolved for c...
Compared with monkeys, great apes have greater range of motion in their shoulders and elbows, which ...
GPT-4 wins chatbot lawyer contest – but is still n...
Several AI chatbots were tested to see how well they could perform legal reasoning and tasks used by...
Spotted salamander eggs hatch more easily if nibbl...
Removing some of the thick jelly layers surrounding spotted salamander eggs may help the embryos ins...
Weird ways that animals experience the world diffe...
Many animals sense their surroundings in ways that are hard to imagine. Christie Taylor spoke to jou...
The ultimate guide to hydration and what you reall...
Plain water, coffee or milk? Sports or energy drinks? Our ideas about what we ought to be drinking, ...
Terracotta Army shoes reveal secrets of ancient Ch...
An analysis of the sculpted shoes on the statues in China’s Terracotta Army, which dates back about ...
Why is Wegovy weight-loss jab so hard to get acces...
Soaring US demand and high drug prices may be keeping the weight loss injections from other nations
