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Earthquakes could be an overlooked source of under...
Laboratory measurements of crushed quartz suggest earthquakes generate huge volumes of hydrogen unde...
Humans evolved to survive mild burns at the expens...
Early humans had almost no hope of surviving severe burns, so evolution may have prioritised the sel...
Virtual reality could help men understand the impa...
Men who were embodying female avatars via virtual reality felt anger and disgust when catcalled, whi...
Is Keir Starmer being advised by AI? The UK govern...
The UK government's Redbox AI chatbot is being used by thousands of civil servants, but a lack of tr...
US government defunds research on misinformation
The US National Science Foundation cancelled funding for research on misinformation, disinformation ...
Chatbots can hide secret messages in seemingly nor...
Text-generating AIs such as ChatGPT can be used to hide encrypted messages inside fake conversations...
Ancient supervolcano eruption had surprisingly mil...
Rather than a volcanic winter, the Toba eruption 74,000 years ago resulted in several years of warm ...
Hackers could 'vandalise' quantum computers withou...
Hackers may be able to garble the output of programs running on quantum computers, leaving other peo...
First ever 'black hole bomb' created in the lab
A black hole bomb - an idea first proposed in 1969 - has now been realised in the lab as a toy model...
Ancient camp shows how humans adapted to extreme c...
An Austrian site occupied by humans from around 24,000 to 20,000 years ago documents a switch toward...
'Bone collector' caterpillar wears dead insect bod...
A carnivorous caterpillar species camouflages itself with dead insects so it can live safely alongsi...
Signs of alien life on exoplanet K2-18b may just b...
Last week astronomers reported hints of biological activity on a distant planet, but a re-analysis o...
Oldest ant fossil ever found shows how ants took o...
A fossilised 113-million-year-old hell ant from Brazil adds to the evidence that the first ants evol...
Reading for pleasure has plummeted over the past 2...
People in the US are reading for pleasure less and less, despite it being linked to better sleep, im...
Colossal ancient icebergs left grooves on the bott...
Scientists have found scour marks on the seabed made by giant icebergs about 18,000 years ago, and t...
The supplement that really can improve your brain ...
Most supplements that claim to help your brain have never been thoroughly tested, but one has convin...
Daily doses of peanuts could desensitise adults wi...
Exposing children with peanut allergy to proteins from the legume is an approved treatment to reduce...
First evidence of gladiator fight with lion seen i...
A man who lived in Roman-occupied Britain was bitten by a big cat, probably in a gladiator arena, an...
