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Legalising marijuana hasn't been the quick fix the...
More than 20 US states have now legalised recreational cannabis, but the devastating effects of proh...
Mysterious rotation trick makes magnets float in t...
A few years ago, researchers discovered that a rapidly rotating magnet will cause other nearby magne...
Schools cut covid-19 sick days by 20 per cent usin...
The eagerly awaited finding comes from the first randomised trial of putting HEPA filter machines in...
Humans caught more diseases after we domesticated ...
Analysis of DNA from human remains up to 37,000 years old shows that more infectious diseases jumped...
Sperm caught breaking Newton's third law of motion...
Some biological cells swim freely in a way that apparently breaks one of Newton’s laws of motion – b...
UK’s fastest supercomputer will be built in a car ...
Isambard-AI will contain about 5000 graphics processing units, making it 10 times as powerful as the...
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 ...
