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AIs will become useless if they keep learning from...
If language models such as ChatGPT are trained using outputs of other AIs, they will become heavily ...
Why 2023 is shaping up to be the hottest year on r...
Global weather conditions are showing extraordinary levels of heating this year. With this adding to...
Pay-monthly option for heat pumps could help Europ...
Customers in the UK, Germany and Italy will soon be able to replace gas boilers with heat pumps from...
Weird stink bug with forked horns and tusks discov...
A multicoloured stink bug found in Western Australia has forked horns for camouflage, mysterious pat...
Artistic artefacts are rewriting the timeline of a...
A slew of newly found artefacts in South America are revealing surprisingly familiar ways ancient pe...
Strange, spiny beetle discovered in Japan
A new-to-science species of beetle is marked by a distinct yellow band on its shoulders, long hair-l...
Reef sharks are being wiped out by overfishing so ...
A global survey reveals that common species of coral reef shark are in sharp decline, and rays are m...
Ancient plant's leaves didn't follow golden rule a...
Most modern plants grow leaves in a pattern that follows the Fibonacci sequence, but a reconstructio...
Chemists have solved a decades-long problem of bon...
Atoms of a metal don't like to bond with one another, but chemists have succeeded in forging a metal...
What are 'synthetic embryos' and why are scientist...
The first human embryo-like structures have been created from stem cells, in a move that could help ...
Plan to restore England's chalk streams may take d...
Chalk streams, a type of nutrient-rich river found mostly in England, are under threat from pollutio...
Cosmic rays help navigate underground in first rea...
Particles produced by cosmic rays hitting Earth's atmosphere, called muons, have been proposed as an...
Exposing C-section babies to vaginal fluid boosts ...
Transferring a mother's vaginal fluid to a baby born by Caesarean section was linked to their develo...
How to see five planets align in the sky this week...
In the early morning on 17 June you will be able to see Mercury, Uranus, Jupiter, Neptune and Saturn...
'Smart drugs' don't make people better at a proble...
Some students take medicines like methylphenidate, often sold under the brand name Ritalin, to boost...
Endometriosis may be caused by bacterial infection...
Bacteria that contribute to gum disease may be a cause of the gynaecological condition endometriosis...
Shell can't say it backs net zero while still bett...
Like its rival BP, Shell claims it is committed to reaching net zero by 2050 despite planning to inc...
IBM quantum computer beat a supercomputer in a hea...
Researchers at IBM pitted their 127-qubit Eagle quantum computer against a conventional supercompute...
