Nobel Prize in physics awarded for ultracold electronics research that launched a quantum technology
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12,000-year-old rock art marked ancient water sources in Arabia’s desert
About 12,000 years ago, high up on a cliff in the desert of northern Arabia,…
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OpenAI’s newly launched Sora 2 makes AI’s environmental impact impossible to ignore
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Friendships aren’t just about keeping score – new psychology research looks at why we help our friends when they need it
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How a 400,000-year-old elephant skeleton solved a tantalising puzzle of early human behaviour
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What do Nigerian children think about computers? Our study found out
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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.…
Our engineering team is making versatile, tiny sensors from the Nobel-winning ‘metal-organic frameworks’
When the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry honored Omar Yaghi – the “father of metal-organic…