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The neuroscientist who wants us to be nicer to psy...
Abigail Marsh has found that many psychopaths don’t want to be cruel and uncaring, and argues that t...
Psychedelics may be no better than antidepressants...
Drugs like psilocybin that induce psychedelic effects have shown promise for treating depression. No...
Google rerouted hundreds of flights to cut climate...
A weather-forecasting AI was used to recommend routes for American Airlines flights between the US a...
Social media is a defective product
Two lawsuits are being brought against giant tech firms for the dangers their apps pose to young peo...
A very serious guide to buying your own humanoid r...
You can now buy a humanoid robot housekeeper for less than the price of a second-hand car. But befor...
Your partner may wake you up six times a night – b...
People who share a bed with a partner are woken by them multiple times per night, but don’t remember...
Particle discovered at CERN solves a 20-year-old m...
Physicists working on the LHCb experiment have spotted an elusive and fleeting particle, a heavier a...
3I/ATLAS: Interstellar comet has water unlike any ...
The levels of a heavy form of hydrogen in 3I/ATLAS are 30 to 40 times higher than in Earth's oceans,...
Forget the multiverse. In the pluriverse, we creat...
A radical idea that resolves many quantum paradoxes suggests there is no objective view of reality. ...
The asteroid Ryugu has all of the main ingredients...
All five of the canonical nucleobases – the underpinnings of DNA, RNA and life on Earth – have been ...
Why global warming is accelerating and what it mea...
Scientists disagree whether human-made climate change or natural fluctuations are mostly to blame fo...
AI is nearly exclusively designed by men – here's ...
With the Trump administration’s attacks on so-called woke AI it is becoming even harder to make the ...
The ancient Goths were an ethnically diverse group...
Ancient DNA reveals that the Goths of eastern Europe, some of whom would ultimately sack the city of...
What does it mean if the universe has extra dimens...
Dimensions beyond the four we’re familiar with could solve a host of problems in physics and cosmolo...
A smartphone app can help men last longer in bed
In a randomised trial, men who experience premature ejaculation benefitted from using an app to lear...
Our extinct Australopithecus relatives may have ha...
Simulations of Australopithecus hominins’ anatomy suggest that when they gave birth, they may have e...
The 3 things you need to know about passwords, fro...
There are a few simple things you can do to make your digital life much more secure, says cybersecur...
A unicellular organism with no brain is capable of...
A trumpet-shaped, single-celled organism seems able to predict one thing will follow another, hintin...
