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Smartphone notifications may be distracting you mo...
A social media notification popping up on your phone can be quite distracting, even if you don't eng...
Another quantum computer reached quantum advantage...
A quantum computer that uses particles of light took about two dozen microseconds to complete a calc...
We could get most metals for clean energy without ...
An analysis of active US mines finds they already collect virtually all of the minerals the country ...
The colour of your car has a big impact on urban h...
Dark-coloured cars can make a measurable difference on nearby air temperature, and in cities of mill...
How to tackle environmental issues when the world ...
The failure to agree a global treaty on plastic pollution highlights how the UN’s requirement for un...
There might be a 'Planet Y' hiding in the outer so...
Astronomers have picked up evidence of an Earth-sized world, distinct from the previously hypothesis...
Our brain doesn't actually reorganise itself after...
Previous research in macaques suggests that part of the brain reorganises itself when a limb is remo...
Could lacing food with fat-trapping microbeads hel...
Edible microbeads made of vitamin E and seaweed helped rats lose weight by absorbing excess fat in t...
Ceres may have been habitable at just half a billi...
A billion or so years into its evolution, the icy dwarf planet Ceres may have had the right conditio...
Super-cool cement could stop buildings trapping he...
A new formulation of cement reflects and emits heat more effectively than normal Portland cement, so...
A new angle on brain health could bring much-neede...
Psychiatric medicine hasn't changed much since the 1960s. Could blocking the effects of chronic infl...
Physicist Frank Wilczek’s unique insights on the n...
Frank Wilczek has one of the most brilliant and original minds in theoretical physics, having come u...
Nuclear fusion gets a boost from a controversial d...
A 1989 experiment offered the promise of nuclear fusion without the need for high temperatures, but ...
Artificial superfood for bees boosts colony reprod...
A dietary supplement made from engineered yeast could help honeybees thrive despite the declining av...
NASA and IBM built an AI to predict solar flares b...
An AI model trained on years of data from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory can predict the sun’s fu...
Lesser-known food allergens are actually behind ma...
Foods like goat or sheep milk and buckwheat are behind many cases of severe allergic reactions, but ...
Flower-like origami patterns could inspire folding...
Engineers have developed a class of origami structures that unfold in one smooth motion to create fl...
New moon discovered orbiting Uranus is its smalles...
The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered a new moon that is small and dim in orbit around Uranu...
