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People who are blind can navigate indoors with a p...
Two wayfinding apps use motion sensors and AI to help people who are blind navigate a building, with...
Intuitive Machines is about to launch its Odysseus...
US company Intuitive Machines is launching its Odysseus lander towards the moon's south pole. If all...
Submerged wall could be the largest Stone Age mega...
A stone wall nearly a kilometre long found under the Baltic Sea may have been built by ancient hunte...
Zinc provides new clue for why loud noise causes h...
Exposing mice to continuous loud noises changed the zinc levels in their inner ears, while a zinc-tr...
Most newborn black holes spew gas so hard they alm...
When black holes are born from collapsing stars, they emit a short-lived jet that may slow down the ...
Why string theory has been unfairly maligned - and...
String theory is widely considered beyond empirical investigation. But we could conceivably test it ...
Small Spaces in the City review: Can we thrive in ...
As we increasingly live in cities, tiny apartments are likely to become the norm. A new exhibition h...
Half of migratory animal species are in decline – ...
The first ever UN report into the state of migratory species suggests animals from sharks to sea bir...
Quantum Cheshire Cat effect may separate a particl...
A quantum experiment that could separate a particle’s properties from its mass has physicists arguin...
Babies in bilingual homes have distinct brain patt...
Infants aged just 4 months old who live in a home where two languages are spoken have distinct patte...
Blood vessels made with 3D-printed ice could impro...
Moulds of an organ's delicate blood vessel network can be made with 3D-printed ice, helping to overc...
Atlantic current shutdown is a real danger, sugges...
The most detailed computer model run so far shows that melting ice sheets could cause the collapse o...
Hominins may have left Africa 700,000 years earlie...
Our hominin ancestors originated in Africa and the consensus is that they didn't leave there until a...
Sensitive prosthetic lets man feel hot and cold in...
By applying heat or cold in certain locations on the upper arm, an adapted prosthetic with sensors c...
SpaceX aims to let astronauts avoid a radio blacko...
When spacecraft re-enter Earth’s atmosphere, friction heats them up and creates a plasma sheath that...
Old milk can be used to extract gold and other met...
To extract valuable metals from discarded computer motherboards, researchers have developed a gold-a...
Minecraft could be the key to creating adaptable A...
Researchers have a new way to assess an AI model’s intelligence: drop it into a game of Minecraft, w...
Einstein may be wrong about how mirrors travelling...
In 1905, Einstein discovered a paradox in the predicted behaviour of mirrors travelling at impossibl...
