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Disney and OpenAI have made a surprise deal – what...
In a stunning reversal, Disney has changed tack with regard to safeguarding its copyrighted characte...
Killer whales and dolphins are ‘being friends’ to ...
White-sided dolphins seem to help killer whales "scout" and catch Chinook salmon near Vancouver Isla...
Supposedly distinct psychiatric conditions may hav...
People are often diagnosed with multiple neurodivergencies and mental health conditions, but the big...
Earth and solar system may have been shaped by nea...
A new explanation for the solar system's radioactive elements suggests Earth-like planets might be f...
Roman occupation of Britain damaged the population...
Urban populations in southern Britain experienced a decline in health that lasted for generations af...
Comets were on fire this year – for better or wors...
Field Notes From Space-Time columnist Chanda Prescod-Weinstein on how comets grabbed the headlines i...
Donald Trump and Elon Musk put science on the chop...
The Trump administration has targeted everything from public health to space missions for funding cu...
We may finally know what a healthy gut microbiome ...
Our gut microbiome has a huge influence on our overall health, but we haven't been clear on the spec...
Inside the wild experiments physicists would do wi...
From a particle smasher encircling the moon to an “impossible” laser, five scientists reveal the exp...
Genetic trick to make mosquitoes malaria resistant...
The rollout of a type of genetic technology called a gene drive for tackling malaria could be edging...
Oldest evidence of fire-lighting comes from early ...
An excavation in Suffolk, UK, has uncovered pyrite and flint that appear to have been used by ancien...
What the evolution of tickling tells us about bein...
From bonobos and rats to tickling robots, research is finally cracking the secrets of why we’re tick...
Australia's social media ban faces challenges and ...
As Australian teenagers lose access to social media, observers say there are still many unknown ques...
Why we only recently discovered space is dark not ...
For centuries, Europeans thought that eternal daylight saturated the cosmos. The shift to a dark uni...
Did ancient humans start farming so they could dri...
New evidence suggests that alcohol was a surprisingly big motivator in our monumental transition fro...
Dinosaurs like Diplodocus may have been as colourf...
Skin fossils from a sauropod dinosaur examined with an electron microscope feature structures called...
2025 was chock full of exciting discoveries in hum...
From an incredible series of revelations about the ancient humans called Denisovans to surprising di...
The surprising longevity lessons from the world’s ...
Scientists were amazed to discover a 507-year-old clam that was already 100 in Shakespeare’s day, bu...
