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Start-up is developing world’s first ammonia-power...
The New York start-up Amogy has already created an ammonia-powered drone, tractor and semi-truck. No...
The brain may flush out its waste products after a...
Extra cerebrospinal fluid – which normally flushes out waste - was pumped into the brain after peopl...
T. rex’s terrifying teeth would have been hidden b...
Just about every popular depiction of predatory dinosaurs is wrong, because their teeth were probabl...
Bits of Saturn’s rings are falling onto the planet...
Observations from five spacecraft over 40 years have shown that as Saturn’s rings slowly disintegrat...
Why we fall for wellness, even when the science sa...
The wellness industry tells us we can be healthier and more productive through quick fixes and suppl...
Memories may be sorted by the thalamus before bein...
The thalamus is the brain's relay station for sensory information, but a study in mice has found it ...
New way to predict river flood risk could help pre...
An analysis of flood data from 101 rivers in Germany and the US has identified clues that indicate a...
The ageing of cells may be due to errors that harm...
Older cells may fail to make proteins or may make proteins that don't function as they should, in a ...
This map of Venus shows every volcano we know abou...
Mapping the volcanoes of Venus is surprisingly easier than doing the same on Earth, because many of ...
Reliably detecting AI-generated text is mathematic...
The ease with which artificial intelligence can generate and paraphrase language means that detector...
JWST has spotted the earliest black hole ever seen...
The discovery of a black hole that formed just 570 million years after the big bang could help us un...
Next 10,000 years of Greenland ice sheet could be ...
Carbon emissions within the next 50 years could lead to a tipping point where large parts of the Gre...
ChatGPT outperforms humans at labelling some data ...
OpenAI’s ChatGPT labelled text samples used in AI training with more accuracy than people did. The a...
How long can humans live? We may not have hit the ...
[tbc] The record for the maximum human lifespan has stayed unbroken since the 1990s but that might c...
Drug overdose deaths have quadrupled among older U...
In the past two decades, death rates from drug overdoses have dramatically increased among adults 65...
Protons seem to be a different size depending on h...
An experiment that probed particles called gluons, which contain most of the mass of a proton, has r...
Nanosyringes could inject drugs into specific cell...
Researchers have tweaked structures made by bacteria so that they can target human cells and inject ...
Ultra-tough battery survives hammer blows and bein...
A hydrogel battery that can perform well at below-freezing temperatures and survive all sorts of dam...
