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Leukaemia drug shows promise at treating breast ca...
A drug that is commonly used to treat chronic myeloid leukaemia stopped the most common type of brea...
Oldest ichthyosaur fossil hints they evolved befor...
Ichthyosaur bones found in 250 million-year-old rock hint that these swimming reptiles may have appe...
Freak storms stopped tens of thousands of birds br...
Huge snowstorms between December 2021 and January 2022 made Antarctic petrels, snow petrels and sout...
Brown widow spiders are killing off black widows i...
How about these tweaks to the strap: Black widow spiders are waning in the southern US and brown wid...
Amazon wants you to help train robots by playing a...
A computer game being developed by Amazon, called Alexa Arena, is designed to harvest information on...
Emotions like disgust and fear linked to more acid...
People who reported feeling the most disgusted or frightened after watching a series of videos had a...
A massive power transformer shortage is wreaking h...
A nationwide shortage of power grid transformers is causing delays across the US for everything from...
Eating non-native plants helps some butterflies fi...
Raising white peacock butterflies on a diet of exotic plants gave them a higher chance of survival a...
Spy robot investigates the enemy and then melts in...
A robot that dissolves into a puddle after exposing itself to heat and UV light could one day be use...
Squid fishing is booming in unregulated parts of t...
To lure squid to the surface, fishing vessels often use bright lights than can be seen by satellites...
Stone flakes made by monkeys cast doubt on ancient...
When macaques use stones to crack nuts, they accidentally create flakes that look like early human a...
Google robot can have a conversation but also fetc...
A robot that is controlled by Google’s PaLM-E artificial intelligence language model can process ima...
First beauty products made with synthetic palm oil...
A skin and hair product that uses a yeast oil with properties similar to palm oil aims to help reduc...
Character creator AI puts Barack Obama – or anyone...
An artificial intelligence in the game Justice Online will let players customise characters to look ...
How are the atoms that form us forged across the u...
For decades researchers have studied how heavy elements are produced in the cosmos – but there is st...
Rapid genome sequencing helps save hundreds of cri...
More than 400 children have taken part in a rapid whole-genome sequencing trial at every hospital in...
Tropical cyclone Freddy may be longest on record a...
Since forming off the coast of Australia on 6 February, tropical cyclone Freddy has crossed the Indi...
A common and treatable cause of heart attacks is b...
Research suggests inflammation may be just as important as cholesterol as a cause of heart attacks, ...
