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Wildfire smoke is reversing decades of progress on...
A spike in wildfires across the globe is stalling and even reversing improvements on air pollution, ...
Bits of an ancient planet called Theia may be buri...
Two strange, high-density blobs buried more than a kilometre underground may have come from the anci...
Starfish don't have a body - they're just a big sq...
Gene expression patterns in starfish reveal a surprising answer to the question of how they evolved ...
Are you truly healthy? These new tests provide the...
Conventional measures like blood pressure and body mass index only tell you so much. Testing your mi...
Sperm sense what they are swimming through and ada...
Bull sperm move their tails up and down with a larger range of motion when the fluid around them is ...
UK AI summit: Countries agree declaration on front...
A meeting at Bletchley Park in the UK on the future of artificial intelligence kicked off with an ag...
UK AI summit is a 'photo opportunity' not an open ...
The AI Safety Summit, hosted by UK prime minister Rishi Sunak, has been criticised for a lack of div...
Ash from wildfires may fuel the growth of plankton...
Wildfires can deposit large amounts of ash into the oceans, and experiments suggest that this materi...
The best new science fiction books of November 202...
A fresh vision of the Culture universe from Iain M. Banks plus new books from Brandon Sanderson and ...
AIs can guess where Reddit users live and how much...
Large language models such as GPT-4 were able to identify people’s personal information by analysing...
Why is there a shortage of ADHD drugs and what can...
People with ADHD may need to search for their medicines at multiple pharmacies or see their doctor t...
NASA’s Lucy spacecraft is hurtling towards the tin...
The Lucy spacecraft will visit its first of ten asteroids on 1 November – a small rock called Dinkin...
A curious history of famous body parts
Suzie Edge is a medical historian who frequently surprises (and sometimes shocks) her TikTok followe...
With privacy concerns rising, can we teach AI chat...
The way AI systems work means that we can’t easily delete what they have learned. Now, researchers a...
Face masks ward off covid-19, so why are we still ...
The most recent review into the effectiveness of face masks has confirmed that they do help to preve...
UK AI summit: G7 countries agree AI code of conduc...
Ahead of a meeting at Bletchley Park on the future of artificial intelligence hosted by UK prime min...
Flatworms can either regrow lost heads or reproduc...
When flatworms have the ability to regenerate, they lose the option to lay eggs – instead they produ...
Why cannabis smells like skunk – and how that coul...
Researchers recently identified the chemical source of marijuana's distinctive scent. The finding co...
