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Deepfake politicians may have a big influence on I...
Political campaigns are deploying AI-generated deepfake versions of politicians to reach hundreds of...
Two medicines for opioid addiction also help with ...
The medicines nalmefene and naltrexone helped compulsive gamblers reduce their betting activities, t...
Swarm of nanorobots can remove tiny plastic fragme...
In just 2 hours, small metal robots can capture most nanoscopic plastic particles from a sample of w...
Wasps use face-recognition brain cells to identify...
The neurons in wasp brains that help them recognise hive mates are similar to those in the brains of...
Supermassive black holes may provide a nursery for...
The supermassive black holes at the centres of galaxies may capture smaller black holes. Not only do...
Birthplace of red asteroid Kamo‘oalewa pinned to s...
The redness of asteroid 469219 Kamo‘oalewa marks it out as probably originating on the moon, and now...
Rat neuron injection lets mice that can’t smell sn...
Mice that had been genetically modified to lack the ability to smell could sniff out hidden cookies ...
Modern rose hybrids have a worrying lack of geneti...
Intensive breeding since the 19th century has created thousands of varieties of rose, but a reductio...
Brain activity seems to be more complex in baby gi...
When fetuses and babies were exposed to sound stimuli, their brains' subsequent electrical activity ...
India’s healthcare system falls short despite Modi...
More than 1.4 billion people live in India, giving its healthcare system a major role in planetary w...
Can India build a world-leading computer chip indu...
India currently has a fairly small chip-manufacturing industry, but prime minister Narendra Modi wan...
Japan’s SLIM moon lander has shockingly survived a...
Almost all moon landers break down during the extraordinary cold of lunar night, but Japan’s Smart L...
Quantum forces used to automatically assemble tiny...
The very weak forces of attraction caused by the Casimir effect can now be used to manipulate micros...
Culling predatory starfish conserves coral on the ...
Targeted culling of crown-of-thorns starfish has resulted in parts of the Great Barrier Reef maintai...
Let's not trash recycling technologies that could ...
Some environmental campaigners claim that attempts to create a circular economy for plastics are doo...
Huge genetic study redraws the tree of life for fl...
Using genomic data from more than 9500 species, biologists have mapped the evolutionary relationship...
Nuclear fusion experiment overcomes two key operat...
Two important barriers to a stable, powerful fusion reaction have been leapt by an experiment in a s...
A new kind of experiment at the LHC could unravel ...
The Large Hadron Collider is testing entanglement in a whole new energy range, probing the meaning o...
