Carbon removal technologies have long been seen as an important solution to climate change, but it is only now that these ideas are becoming..
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In the quest to make artificial intelligence that can reason and apply knowledge flexibly, many researchers are focused on fresh insights fr
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For the first time, artificial intelligence has been used to control the super-hot plasma inside a fusion reactor, offering a new way to inc..
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Physicists have measured time dilation on the smallest scale ever using an atomic clock made of thousands of ultracold atoms formed into a s..
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Between November 2020 and February 2021, Facebook introduced policies to cut down on misinformation related to covid-19 vaccines, but they o..
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Several recent studies have led to the suggestion that humans can grow new neurons in some parts of the brain as adults, but the idea is bei..
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An unusual pair of stars may have been formed in a rare type of stellar merger when a helium star eats another one made of carbon and oxygen
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A robot with appendages that mimic the swimming legs of krill could one day be used to study these key marine food sources or explore hard-t..
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Tattoos can hinder face recognition software, but deep learning algorithms can be trained to remove them, which reduces the rate of errors
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Crowdsourced photographs reveal that some humpback whales travel between Mexico and Hawaii in one breeding season
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An Australian plan to eliminate childhood cancer deaths using personalised medicine will be made available to all Australian children with t..
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A team of Swiss surgeons have implanted electrodes into the spines of three people who are paralysed, helping them to walk again
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Previous research has shown that we are attracted to the body odour of people with better health, and now it seems the strength of your immu..
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Billionaire Jared Isaacman, who flew to orbit aboard a SpaceX craft in September 2021, has purchased three more flights into orbit, and the ..
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A compact weapon that generates a beam of microwaves can knock out electronic devices without causing harm to people
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Synthetic human faces are so convincing they can fool even trained observers, and they may be highly effective for use in scams
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The founder of modern physics
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Lichens are important for stabilising soils and providing some animals with food, but the algae within them are adapting to climate change a..
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There are only two flowering plants native to Antarctica and both have seen an explosion in their numbers in the decade from 2009 to 2019
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It is time to do away with buying new products and binning them at the end of their lives and instead create a circular economy in which old..
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Capture photos of wild plants and animals, identify species you come across and contribute to biodiversity and conservation research, sugges..
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Chien-Shiung Wu was a Chinese-American scientist who made a fundamental discovery in the field of particle physics, but never got full recog..
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In Edward Ashton's novel Mickey7, Mickey gets a shot at immortality by uploading his consciousness, but at what cost, asks Sally Adee
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As tensions rise in Ukraine with Russian troops arriving at the border in increasing numbers, a small army of amateur engineers is monitorin..
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The bridge spider (Larinioides sclopetarius) uses its web to detect the sounds made by insects flying nearby and prepare itself for a potent..
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Astronomers say a "hyperburst" nuclear explosion within a neutron star could explain its strange behaviour - but the conditions required to ..
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These highlights of the International Garden Photographer of the Year competition feature a beautiful ant rendezvous and a “melancholy” butt..
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Iceland’s glaciers are melting as a consequence of climate change, but the rate of loss has fallen in the past decade, perhaps because a blo..
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Marie Maynard Daly was a US biochemist and the first African-American woman to gain a PhD in chemistry
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NASA engineers working to align the 18 hexagonal mirrors of the James Webb Space Telescope have released its first pictures. One shows the s..
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Precision measurements have long suggested that particles called muons, closely related to the electron, are misbehaving. Now, it seems thei..
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A star system just 4.2 light years away called Proxima Centauri is already known to contain two exoplanets, and now astronomers have spotted..
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We are devouring ever more biomass, fossil fuels, metals and minerals each year. These graphics show how, and the shocking picture of how mu..
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The first evidence of a respiratory infection in a dinosaur suggests that a 15-year-old diplodocid suffered from coughing, sneezing and feve..
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Protein plaques associated with Alzheimer's disease may build up in the brain if sleep is disrupted because this affects cells that normally..
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The (other) evolutionary benefits of mask-wearing, plus romance in the metaverse and imaginary chemical elements, in Feedback’s weekly weird..
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A sustainable future means using less stuff more wisely – but politicians aren’t yet grasping the nettle, says the head of the UN Internatio..
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Is it possible for corporations to draw up better net-zero targets? Or should we be looking to scrap the term entirely?
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The success of gene therapy in treating a fatal form of leukaemia is cause for celebration, but we don't yet know how common such results wi..
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As sea levels rise due to climate change, heritage sites all around the African coast will come under increasing risk of flood damage – incl..
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Coral gardening projects are more popular than ever to help reefs recover from the effects of a warming ocean, but they are a distraction aw..
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25333723-100-the-way-we-are-going-about-saving-coral-reefs-is-all-wrong/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

Drugs to help people fall in love are increasingly becoming viable, but they could cause harm as well as happiness, says Anna Machin
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25333734-700-love-drugs-are-coming-and-they-bring-big-ethical-problems-with-them/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home

About 10,000 years before modern humans colonised Europe, a small group of them moved into a cave in southern France that had just been aban..
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A new book by ecologist Rebecca Nesbit argues that it’s time to stop being romantic about nature and make some rational decisions about what..
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Recycling rare earth elements from the ash left over from coal burning is cheaper, easier and more environmentally friendly than digging the..
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A large real-world study adds to clinical trial evidence that people who do yoga tend to have lower blood pressure, which may prevent heart ..
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