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Social media algorithms can change your views in j...
The content you see on social media is often determined by an algorithm - and it turns out that thes...
AI can analyse a decomposing body to help pinpoint...
Determining when someone died based on their decomposing body is a subjective task, but artificial i...
A little bit of fear can bring down high levels of...
Feeling scared seems to reduce elevated levels of inflammation, which may help explain why some peop...
Bird flu may be adapting to become more infectious...
Three people in North America without known animal exposures have tested positive for the bird flu v...
Ocean acidification is reaching deeper waters
Rising carbon dioxide levels are driving an increase in the ocean’s acidity – and this change is sin...
Robot balloons are snapping centimetre-resolution ...
Near Space Labs’s autonomous balloon fleet is already taking high-resolution images of the ground, a...
Banning scary-sounding ideas can comfort but does ...
Recent developments in AI and neurological research may prompt concern. However, placing outright ba...
How could Ukraine stop Russia’s new Oreshnik missi...
Russia’s new ballistic missile flies on a high arc out of Earth’s atmosphere and releases multiple h...
Fossilised droppings tell the story of dinosaurs' ...
An analysis of hundreds of bromalites – fossilised faeces and vomit – shows how changes in diet enab...
We may be about to solve the greatest riddle of el...
Physicists have long wondered why particles can only have an electric charge of +1, -2 or any whole ...
Record-breaking diamond storage can save data for ...
Researchers have used lasers to encode information in diamonds, demonstrating record-breaking data d...
How safe is the US food supply?
Food in the US has a bad rap thanks to outbreaks caused by bacteria, plus processing, additives and ...
Changing a single number among billions can destro...
Today's huge AI models are composed of several billion numbers known as weights and changing just on...
Orcas have begun wearing salmon hats again – and w...
About 40 years ago, researchers noticed a population of orcas had begun swimming around with dead fi...
Forest schools don't actually boost most children'...
Swapping classrooms for the woods doesn't appear to improve most children's mental health, but they ...
The radical treatments bringing people back from t...
Reperfusion technologies that can reanimate human brains are raising the possibility that death coul...
Salt batteries are finally shaping up – that's goo...
With lithium in short supply, sodium-ion batteries might offer cheap energy storage with less enviro...
What will it take to solve our planet's plastic po...
Countries are meeting in South Korea this week to hash out the final details of a global treaty aime...
