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Chemists are teaching GPT-4 to do chemistry and co...

Augmenting the artificial intelligence GPT-4 with extra chemistry knowledge made it much better at p...

Quantum computers could simulate a black hole in t...

Understanding the interactions between quantum physics and gravity within a black hole is one of the...

Our galaxy’s black hole may have made a huge X-ray...

The supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way may have blasted out a powerful burst of ...

It may have been snowing on Mars 400,000 years ago...

China’s Zhurong rover has found evidence for liquid water on the surface of Mars - and it probably b...

Spanish heatwave: Is climate change behind record ...

A spring heatwave across parts of southern Europe is seeing temperature records for April broken in ...

Exotic cosmic objects in string theory may look li...

Physicists have simulated strange objects from string theory to determine what they look like – if t...

We finally know why bubbles rise in a straight lin...

In carbonated drinks, the wake from rising bubbles can disturb other bubbles. But when the molecules...

Why saving Britain's rivers means more than cleani...

Researchers at the UK’s annual River Restoration conference say that policy-makers and the general p...

Psychedelics may increase entropy in the brain's v...

Computer simulations of a human brain under the influence of LSD show that entropy increases the mos...

Doctors are hypnotising people before surgery to h...

The professional body for anaesthetists in the UK has produced hypnosis recordings for patients to l...

Balto's genome reveals famed sledge dog was a mutt...

Balto had a varied ancestry, sharing genes with Siberian huskies, Greenland sledge dogs, Vietnamese ...

Blobs of worms untangle in milliseconds with a cor...

California blackworms gather together in tangled-up balls to preserve moisture during droughts, but ...

Evolutionary oddball has seven genomes inside a si...

DNA analysis has revealed that a single-celled alga has a strange conglomeration of different organi...

Hyenas seen sharing their dens with porcupines and...

Camera traps at two dens in Kenya have captured evidence of porcupines and warthogs occupying dens a...

Watch a weird robot wiggle and flap like a seal mo...

A four-legged robot has been designed to imitate the bouncing and lunging motion of a seal on land, ...

We mess up when the stakes are high due to a disru...

A brain mechanism that enables us to carry out tasks to achieve a certain reward may get disrupted w...

We now know why we mess up when the stakes are hig...