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Permafrost thaw beneath Arctic lakes poses surpris...
Deep sediments under Arctic lakes could release large amounts of carbon dioxide and methane, adding ...
Electric fields could mine rare earth metals with ...
Smartphones, electric vehicles and wind turbines rely on environmentally destructive rare earth mini...
Global treaty is failing to curb ultra-potent gree...
Countries have pledged to phase out HFC-23, a powerful greenhouse gas, but atmospheric data shows th...
Climate change may have killed ancient 'hobbit' ho...
Homo floresiensis, a metre-tall ancient hominin, lived on the South Pacific island of Flores and hun...
US teens are using less of every substance – excep...
Teenagers in the US roughly doubled their use of nicotine pouches in 2024, despite turning away from...
Glowing biological quantum sensor could track how ...
A quantum sensor based on a protein from bioluminescent jellyfish can be made by the body itself and...
Crystal-based cooling could make fridges more sust...
A new type of crystal that absorbs heat when released from extreme pressure could lead to climate-fr...
Delicate robot hands know just how hard to squeeze...
A robotic hand uses fingertip sensors and AI to determine how firmly to grip before closing in on an...
AI chatbots fail to diagnose patients by talking w...
Although popular AI models score highly on medical exams, their accuracy drops significantly when ma...
Will there be another pandemic after covid-19 and ...
Covid-19 is responsible for the deaths of millions of people around the world, but researchers fear ...
We must revisit the covid-19 pandemic to prepare f...
It is tempting to lock memories of the height of covid-19 away but looking back is vital for prepari...
People ate lots of foxes and wildcats 10,000 years...
Foxes and cats weren’t just caught for their pelts, hint cut marks and burns on bones found at a sit...
Blinking may give your brain a micro break during ...
When reading a book, we tend to blink over less familiar words, which suggests it may have a cogniti...
How DNA in dirt is reshaping our understanding of ...
The surprise discovery that ancient human DNA can survive in sediments and soil is revolutionising t...
Physicists bend atoms in ‘impossible’ experiment
Entire atoms have been put through a classic quantum experiment for the first time and the breakthro...
Food made without farming will go on sale in the U...
Several start-ups are preparing to launch new foods made without plants, animals or soil, claiming t...
IBM will release the largest ever quantum computer...
Following successful early demonstrations of linking two quantum computing chips, IBM is aiming to b...
Can we use quantum computers to test a radical con...
Hartmut Neven, who leads Google's Quantum AI lab, wants to entangle our brains with quantum processo...
