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We forget details when our brain picks the wrong t...
Scientists have identified the brain mechanisms behind why we often misremember small details, such ...
Why birds' eyes can be blue, green, pink or orange...
Among birds, eyes come in all sorts of colours – and it seems that this helps them compete for matin...
Do animals know that sex leads to babies?
The time delay between sex and offspring makes identifying the cause and effect a little complicated...
Warm seas blamed for the disappearance of 10 billi...
The population of snow crabs in the Bering Sea has crashed since 2018, probably due to starvation as...
Emergence of huge cicada generation in 2021 led to...
The emergence of 'Brood X' periodical cicadas in the US in 2021 gave birds a new food source, leadin...
IBM's brain-inspired chip could be the fastest at ...
An IBM chip that mimics the brain can run AI-powered image recognition algorithms 22 times faster th...
A blast of radio waves hit Earth after travelling ...
A huge burst of energy that has been travelling for more than half the age of the universe is powerf...
Climate change will prompt expansion of farming in...
As the world warms, vast areas of wilderness in Russia, Canada and Alaska will become more suitable ...
Hurricanes are growing stronger much faster than t...
An analysis of all tropical storms in the Atlantic between 1971 and 2020 has confirmed that hurrican...
Hundreds of chatbots could show us how to make soc...
A newsfeed algorithm designed to counteract political polarisation could be effective, according to ...
UK’s global AI summit must provide solutions rathe...
Efforts to regulate artificial intelligence are gathering steam across the world, but some key ethic...
Why free will doesn't exist, according to Robert S...
It's hard to let go of the idea that free will exists, but neuroscientist Robert Sapolsky says that ...
Strange upward lightning shoots out X-rays as it r...
Tall buildings made from electrically conductive materials can send lightning bolts up into the heav...
Is England doing enough to stop covid-19 spreading...
New figures confirm toll of the coronavirus on hospital patients during UK’s second wave, but it’s u...
Energy-guzzling data centres could work just as we...
Data centres consume a huge amount of energy, but researchers have found a simple fix - let the serv...
Bird flu now sweeping the world evolved in Europe ...
For about 25 years, bird flu viruses typically originated in Asia – but the virus that began spreadi...
Tiniest particle accelerator is so small it could ...
A particle accelerator that measures just 0.2 mm in length uses laser light to accelerate electrons ...
Edible and delicious Chinese mitten crabs are inva...
Numbers of invasive Chinese mitten crabs are believed to be growing in the UK, causing damage to riv...
