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Alice Roberts: 'We are fundamentally, at the end of the day, animals'
Why do we have big brains? Or walk on two legs? Biological anthropologist and broadcaster Alice Roberts talks human exceptionalism, evolution and her new book Humans with Michael Marshall
Scientists just built a powerful AI computer worm that learns as it spreads
Scientists just built a powerful AI computer worm that learns as it spreads This prototype could help the world prepare for AI malware threats, according to the researchers who made it By Jackie Flynn Mogensen edited …
Earth has a mysterious triple symmetry that may influence its climate
A circle running along the 27° east and 153° west meridians divides the globe into two halves with equal reflectivity – and this may have implications for solar geoengineering schemes
A hailstorm can undo a season's work in minutes. It can strike quickly and unevenly, shredding wheat, bruising fruit, flattening crops—while also leaving neigh…
An arthritis drug reduces the amount of RSV in human respiratory cells, but experts say it's too early to say if it will actually treat the common infection.
Landmark pancreatic cancer treatment paves way for targeting other tricky tumors Unprecedented results against a stubbornly hard-to-treat cancer are boosting …
Ultrafast lasers emit pulses lasting only a few hundred femtoseconds (quadrillionths of a second). These flashes of light power applications from precision mic…
A UN report warns of the rapid growth in AI energy consumption, but suggests users can improve efficiency by making prompts more concise
A quantum computer made from extremely cold atoms can correct its own errors during long computations, an important prerequisite for becoming truly useful
Scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory recreated part of the intense chaos inside a nuclear fireball to better understand how radioactive fallout…
Our telescope expert chose the Celestron NexStar 8SE as our best overall telescope, and now, with $200 off, it makes this versatile telescope excellent value f…
A massive study of more than 600,000 U.S. veterans suggests that popular GLP-1 drugs such as semaglutide may do far more than help with diabetes and weight los…
NASA’s Mars mission MAVEN is lost forever MAVEN was the first successful mission designed to study the atmosphere of Mars. It also became a vital node of NASA…
A powerful but mostly unseen water system at work during rocket engine tests at NASA’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, underwent an upgra…
