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The surprising benefits of anxiety and how you cou...
There can be no doubt that extreme anxiety is highly debilitating, but at moderate levels, our nervo...
Laser-powered licence plates could help avoid sate...
It can be difficult to identify satellites that have lost power, increasing the risk of a dangerous ...
Snakes show signs of self-recognition in a smell-b...
Garter snakes may recognise their own scent and react differently when it is altered, hinting at sel...
Babies recognise spoken nursery rhymes they heard ...
Previous research suggests that babies can recognise nursery rhymes that were sung to them while the...
Showing AI just 1000 extra images reduced AI-gener...
Researchers made an AI image generator produce less offensive images by feeding it a tiny amount of ...
Planet caught in a gravitational 'tidal storm' is ...
A strange world is being stretched out of shape by its neighbouring planets, heating it up so intens...
I went hunting for a zombie fungus worth more than...
The fungus yartsa gunbu, which grows by turning caterpillars into zombies, is prized in traditional ...
Therapy that turns lymph nodes into livers gets fi...
An experimental therapy that grows miniature livers inside a person’s lymph nodes has been used in a...
The new evidence that explains what anxiety really...
What anxiety actually is has puzzled scientists for decades. Now we are starting to figure out how i...
Astronomers have found what may be the smallest ga...
A tiny clump of stars orbiting our galaxy should have been ripped apart by the Milky Way, but its co...
Bird flu confirmed in person who had contact with ...
A person in Texas has been infected with bird flu after exposure to dairy cows who had the virus – i...
How the infamous Pitcairn Island became a model of...
Pitcairn Island, one of the remotest places on Earth, was once home to mutineers. Today it’s a trail...
‘Yell at your robot’ technique teaches robots hous...
AI allows robots to listen to verbal instructions while learning to correctly perform household task...
How solar eclipses have been revealing cosmic secr...
Records of total solar eclipses go back thousands of years, and in all that time they have allowed s...
Why vigorous exercise could inadvertently lead to ...
Intense exercise may make the body compensate for energy used during this vigorous activity by reduc...
The best new science fiction books of April 2024
There’s an abundance of exciting new science fiction out in April, by writers including The Three-Bo...
AI chatbots beat humans at persuading their oppone...
When people were challenged to debate contentious topics with a human or GPT-4, they were more likel...
Physicists have worked out how to melt any materia...
A new equation shows a surprisingly simple relationship between pressure and the temperature needed ...
