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A very serious guide to buying your own humanoid r...
You can now buy a humanoid robot housekeeper for less than the price of a second-hand car. But befor...
Your partner may wake you up six times a night – b...
People who share a bed with a partner are woken by them multiple times per night, but don’t remember...
Particle discovered at CERN solves a 20-year-old m...
Physicists working on the LHCb experiment have spotted an elusive and fleeting particle, a heavier a...
3I/ATLAS: Interstellar comet has water unlike any ...
The levels of a heavy form of hydrogen in 3I/ATLAS are 30 to 40 times higher than in Earth's oceans,...
Forget the multiverse. In the pluriverse, we creat...
A radical idea that resolves many quantum paradoxes suggests there is no objective view of reality. ...
The asteroid Ryugu has all of the main ingredients...
All five of the canonical nucleobases – the underpinnings of DNA, RNA and life on Earth – have been ...
Why global warming is accelerating and what it mea...
Scientists disagree whether human-made climate change or natural fluctuations are mostly to blame fo...
AI is nearly exclusively designed by men – here's ...
With the Trump administration’s attacks on so-called woke AI it is becoming even harder to make the ...
The ancient Goths were an ethnically diverse group...
Ancient DNA reveals that the Goths of eastern Europe, some of whom would ultimately sack the city of...
What does it mean if the universe has extra dimens...
Dimensions beyond the four we’re familiar with could solve a host of problems in physics and cosmolo...
A smartphone app can help men last longer in bed
In a randomised trial, men who experience premature ejaculation benefitted from using an app to lear...
Our extinct Australopithecus relatives may have ha...
Simulations of Australopithecus hominins’ anatomy suggest that when they gave birth, they may have e...
The 3 things you need to know about passwords, fro...
There are a few simple things you can do to make your digital life much more secure, says cybersecur...
A unicellular organism with no brain is capable of...
A trumpet-shaped, single-celled organism seems able to predict one thing will follow another, hintin...
Why are we so suspicious of do-gooders?
A growing body of research shows that we tend to discount a person’s good deeds if they stand to ben...
The race to solve the biggest problem in quantum c...
The errors that quantum computers make are holding the technology back. But recent progress in quant...
We don’t know if AI-powered toys are safe, but the...
Toys powered by AI show a worrying lack of emotional understanding. But we need to understand the ri...
How worried should you be about your BMI?
Body mass index (BMI) is used as a global standard for measuring health, but does it actually tell y...
