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Rats can move objects in virtual reality using onl...
By reading a rat's intentions from its brain patterns, an AI can help the rodent move objects in a v...
Bison lick each other's wounds after a traumatic e...
Communal wound licking has been documented in a hoofed mammal for the first time. American bison may...
Covid-19 is no longer a global health emergency, s...
The World Health Organization has declared an end to covid-19’s designation as a public health emerg...
How Elon Musk and Reddit are leading a war on AI w...
The long-accepted practice of search engines scraping content from websites is being re-examined now...
Your saliva may determine which types of wine you ...
People from Chinese or Western backgrounds reported having different tastes in wines, which may part...
Demon catshark species identified thanks to weird ...
Forty years ago, a strange empty shark egg case was found off the coast of Western Australia, and sc...
Mechanical backpack boosts the sensation of jumpin...
A VR accessory called JumpMod can make users feel like they are jumping higher or landing harder, ju...
ChatGPT seems to be trained on copyrighted books l...
A test to see whether ChatGPT has memorised the contents of copyrighted material suggests it was tra...
Why darkness between stars reveals more about the ...
When looking up at the night sky, light from stars draws attention. But the darkness between the lig...
World’s first RSV vaccine approved in the US for o...
An RSV vaccine has been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration and should be available to p...
Centipede robots with more legs are better at walk...
A series of centipede-inspired robots with different numbers of legs show that the more legs a robot...
Locusts produce an odour to try to put other locus...
The crop-devastating swarms that locusts form are driven in part by the insects' tricks to avoid bei...
Ancient bacteria genome reconstructed from Neander...
Researchers pieced together the genomes of two unknown species of green sulphur bacteria from DNA fr...
Gannets' blue eyes turn black after an infection w...
Black irises have been spotted in gannets that test positive for bird flu antibodies, suggesting the...
Electronic cochlea adjusts to noise levels like a ...
A tiny microphone designed to replicate the way sound is processed in the inner ear could be used in...
Extreme rainfall could lead to 'big disaster' for ...
Heavy rain triggered by climate change is forecast to reduce rice production in China by 8 per cent ...
New drug donanemab slows cognitive decline in earl...
The experimental treatment donanemab is now the second antibody drug to slow cognitive decline in pe...
The science of the weight loss and diabetes drugs ...
From how well they work to side effects such as hair loss, here’s the skinny on new weight loss inje...
