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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, ...
AI trained on YouTube and podcasts speaks with ums...
An artificial intelligence that has been trained on YouTube and podcast recordings generates speech ...
Orca seen foster parenting a pilot whale calf for ...
The first documented case of cross-species parental behaviour among whales has led researchers to wo...
Scientists warn of 'alarming' rise in ocean microp...
Global data on ocean surface level pollution suggests there are now 2.3 million tonnes of microplast...
Nanotechnology paint provides brilliant colour tha...
A paint that gets its colour from aluminium nanoparticles rather than pigment is also incredibly lig...
We can suck CO2 from the air and store it in the o...
A copper-based material boosts the effectiveness of the direct air capture process, turning carbon d...
Mice have been born from eggs derived from male ce...
A method for turning male cells into egg cells in mice could one day be used to help men in a same s...
'Red matter' superconductor could transform electr...
Researchers have long attempted to produce a superconductor that works at low temperature and pressu...
Soil bacteria enzyme generates electricity from hy...
An enzyme called Huc that the soil bacterium Mycobacterium smegmatis uses to produce energy from hyd...
Fossil thought to be earliest bryozoan animal may ...
The Cambrian fossil Protomelission was identified in 2021 as a type of coral-like animal called a br...
How smoke from Australia’s megafires ate away at t...
Wildfire smoke can change the chemistry of the stratosphere, resulting in chlorine molecules that de...
Restoring the brain’s mitochondria could slow agei...
The discovery that faulty metabolism is at the root of many brain diseases suggests a surprising tra...
