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Brain implant could ease the effects of a traumati...
A device that was implanted into the brains of people with traumatic brain injuries substantially im...
The roboticist who wants to bring AI into contact ...
Artificial intelligence may never reach its full potential without a body to interact with the physi...
China’s first underwater data centre is being inst...
To hold and cool computer servers, China has installed a 1300-tonne watertight cabin on the shallow ...
Rare gene variants can change your height by up to...
Gene variants that have an unusally large effect on some people's heights have been discovered by an...
IBM’s 'Condor' quantum computer has more than 1000...
IBM has revealed two quantum computers. One is the second largest ever made and the other produces f...
Ultrasound can push vaccines into the body without...
Vaccinations could be made less painful by treating skin with a vaccine-laden liquid and using ultra...
Largest stream of stars ever found could teach us ...
The newfound Giant Coma Stream of stars stretches nearly 1.7 million light years across the cosmos, ...
How big a problem are methane and other non-CO2 gr...
Carbon dioxide is the dominant driver of climate change, but countries convening at COP28 are expect...
Why does weed give you the ‘munchies’? Here's what...
There may be several reasons why cannabis encourages people to eat, including the fact that the psyc...
Passing star could fling Earth out past Pluto into...
If another star passed close to our solar system, there is a small chance that Earth could crash int...
GPT-4 developer tool can be exploited for misuse w...
OpenAI’s developer tool for its GPT-4 large language model can be misused to trick the AI into provi...
Painkillers seem to work better if you have unplea...
People found a nasal spray painkiller more effective when it caused a slight burning sensation. This...
Vaping vs edibles: How does the way we use cannabi...
Edibles, vapes and spliffs all contain the same psychoactive compounds but the effects they have on ...
How will we actually know when we pass 1.5°C of wa...
It looks likely that the world will pass 1.5°C of warming in the 2030s, but current climate definiti...
World must prepare for frequent and severe drought...
With climate change driving more intense dry spells, the world must invest in early warning systems ...
The best new science fiction books of December 202...
A novelisation of Zack Snyder’s film Rebel Moon, a new Star Wars novel and the much-anticipated seco...
Robot eel reveals how the strange fish swim so eff...
Tests with an eel-inspired robot show that the unusual fish may swim most efficiently by reducing th...
See a forgotten meteor shower caused by a dead com...
The Andromedid meteor shower is normally a quiet affair, but very occasionally it puts on an intense...
