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OpenAI’s newly launched Sora 2 makes AI’s environmental impact impossible to ignore
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How a 400,000-year-old elephant skeleton solved a tantalising puzzle of early human behaviour
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Why do some songs get stuck in our heads so easily? The science of earworms
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Inside the 2025 Nobel Prize in physics
The 2025 Nobel Prize in physics honors three quantum physicists – John Clarke, Michel H.…
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AI weapons are dangerous in war. But saying they can’t be held accountable misses the point
In a speech to the United Nations Security Council last month, Australia’s Minister for Foreign…
A US startup plans to deliver ‘sunlight on demand’ after dark. Can it work – and would we want it to?
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Nobel-winning tiny ‘sponge crystals’ with an astonishing amount of inner space
The 2025 Nobel Prize in chemistry was awarded to Richard Robson, Susumu Kitagawa and Omar…