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Smart office chair recognises what position you ar...
An office chair fitted with sensors detects how you are sitting and uses artificial intelligence to ...
Watch rare livestream of bald eagles nesting on eg...
Two eggs laid by a pair of nesting bald eagles in California are the latest symbol of success for th...
Flame-resistant variety of cotton could cut need f...
White cotton can normally only be made fire resistant by adding toxic flame retardants, but a new fo...
Oyster mushroom fungus uses nerve gas to paralyse ...
The fungus that produces oyster mushrooms preys on tiny animals by releasing a paralysing nerve gas ...
Treasure trove of fossil eggs hints titanosaurs ne...
A study of more than 250 fossil eggs found in India suggests long-necked titanosaurs nested in large...
Drone with sticky patches studies biodiversity by ...
A drone has revealed information on the animals inhabiting a tree's canopy simply by brushing agains...
You share a third of your oral bacteria with other...
Transmission of bacteria through droplets of saliva from people we live with probably plays a large ...
Fresh ideas about the causes of depression are bri...
By upending the idea that a chemical imbalance in the brain is behind depression, we are starting to...
Odd parasitic plant with fleshy flowers identified...
A review of hydnora plants has identified one new species based on preserved specimens and reinstate...
Huge AI models can be halved in size without degra...
A way to cut the scale of artificial intelligence models by 60 per cent could save huge amounts of e...
Vagus nerve receptors may be key to controlling in...
Researchers identified receptors in the vagus nerves of mice that help control inflammation, which c...
Children aged 5 are better at switching their atte...
In a task based on switching between two sets of rules, 5-year-olds score highly, while 4-year-olds ...
Marine heat waves could wipe out all common sea st...
Simulations of ocean warming show that future marine heat waves that last more than 13 days would ki...
Web3 promises to reclaim the internet from tech gi...
There's a lot of hype surrounding the idea of a decentralised version of the internet that would giv...
Will we ever see commercial plane flights without ...
Many planes have autopilots, but they can only be used in certain circumstances. Now Airbus is testi...
Male chicks are more sociable if they were grown i...
Increasing the temperature of egg incubators by 1°C or 2°C has shown promise to help chickens cope w...
Ranchers are using GPS-collars to herd livestock w...
The US Bureau of Land Management is helping ranchers and farmers in Colorado test virtual fences, wh...
ChatGPT detector could help spot cheaters using AI...
A tool called GPTZero can identify whether text was produced by a chatbot, which could help teachers...
