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NVIDIA wants to use AI chatbots to help build bett...
Generative AI tools such as chatbots may be able to help chip designers generate code and find softw...
Cannabis derails train of thought, but may not aff...
Cannabis interferes with the working memory we use to keep track of what we are doing, but whether t...
Brain cells that tell mice it's time to eat may al...
Further light has been shed on the mechanism of weight-loss injections like Wegovy and Ozempic, as t...
Hairy legs make you swim better – if you're a shri...
Normally, hair increases drag whilst swimming but for shrimp hair seems to make it easier for them t...
Plants are more productive on weekends thanks to c...
Satellite data from Europe shows that rates of photosynthesis are higher when aerosol levels in the ...
Bat uses its huge penis like an arm during sex
Video recordings reveal that penetration does not occur when serotine bats mate; instead males use t...
Cannabis addiction may be partly down to genetics
An analysis of genetic data from more than 1 million people shows that those with cannabis use disor...
How did Paranthropus, the last of the ape-people, ...
Paranthropus was an ape-like hominin that lived on in a world dominated by big-brained early humans....
Earth passes 2°C of warming on hottest day ever re...
The global average surface temperature was more than 2°C higher than pre-industrial levels on 17 Nov...
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman lands new job at Microsoft a...
The head of one of the world's leading AI companies was fired for not being 'candid' with the board,...
Lasers fired at crystals could uncover quantum nat...
Ultra-short laser pulses may allow us to measure entanglement in a way that answers questions about ...
How a dash of science can help bake the perfect eg...
To make a cake delightful even when eggs aren’t in attendance, it is important to account for all th...
The pandemic helped some children develop their vo...
Some preschool children in Canada scored higher on cognitive skills tests during the pandemic than t...
Electronic pill monitors your breathing and heart ...
A smart pill can accurately monitor your breathing and heart rate from inside your gut, which may be...
Time seems to slow down when you're high – why doe...
Cannabis does strange things to our sense of time passing, possibly by over-exciting neurons in a br...
Genital herpes linked to accelerated brain shrinka...
People who tested positive for the virus behind genital herpes tended to have reduced thickness of t...
How to watch the Leonid meteor shower peaking this...
The Leonids are known for their bright, fast-moving meteors. The shower will peak on 17 and 18 Novem...
Why so many prehistoric monuments were painted red...
Megaliths, or huge stones, were used for thousands of years to build monuments, and they were far mo...
