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Driverless cars may struggle to spot children and ...
The accuracy of pedestrian-detecting AI systems may be biased against some groups of people, fuellin...
Wildfires made worse by plants starting to grow ea...
Wildfires in the northern hemisphere burn more fiercely when plants start growing earlier in the yea...
Negative emotions really do make events seem to la...
When people are shown pictures evoking negative emotions, they remember time as passing more slowly,...
Flying bird robot can soar so well it uses almost ...
An autonomous flying robot can float in place like a bird, using its throttle just 0.25 per cent of ...
Morning-after pill is more effective when taken wi...
The emergency contraceptive levonorgestrel is much more effective at preventing pregnancy if the ant...
Pig kidney transplant in brain-dead man still func...
It has been 32 days since Maurice Miller, a dead man who is being kept on life support, received a g...
Gene-edited yeasts transform bread and give rice w...
We can change the flavour and texture of foods like bread and rice wine by tweaking the genomes of t...
Inhalable mRNAs will boost vaccines and therapies ...
Delivering mRNAs to the cells lining the nose and lungs will make vaccines more effective and may al...
Springy ice seen for the first time may explain ho...
Clouds are made up of many tiny drops of liquid water suspended at temperatures below freezing, befo...
Ötzi the iceman was dark-skinned and balding, sugg...
The genome of Ötzi, the 5300-year-old mummified man found in the Alps, was first published in 2012, ...
Wiping stem cells 'clean' could make them easier t...
A technique for reprogramming adult cells that removes any trace of their origins could help produce...
A guide to cosmic fireworks, from stellar flares t...
Far from serene, the night sky is a riot of spectacular bangs and flashes that reveal the universe a...
Is climate change accelerating and is it worse tha...
With temperature records tumbling, it is only natural to worry about cascading tipping points, but t...
What made July 2023 the hottest month ever recorde...
Extreme weather and temperatures made July 2023 a shocking month, with human-driven global warming, ...
Air-purifying lampshade reduces indoor pollution v...
A lampshade coated in either a copper or iron substance removes indoor air pollutants released by co...
Are there really big cats roaming the UK countrysi...
The documentary Panthera Britannia Declassified claims to show clear evidence of a black leopard or ...
Sick blackbirds go to bed earlier just like us
Blackbirds given an injection that mimics a bacterial infection remained active during the day, but ...
Multilingual AIs are better at responding to queri...
AIs that work in multiple languages responded more accurately to questions when they were asked to t...
