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While millions of Americans vacation on beaches every year to seek out sun, sand and…
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Any night now, a “new star” or nova will appear in the night sky. While…
We need to consider alternatives to dark matter that better explain cosmological observations
Do constants of nature — the numbers that determine how things behave, like the speed…
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Power-hungry AI is driving a surge in tech giant carbon emissions. Nobody knows what to do about it
Since the release of ChatGPT in November 2022, the world has seen an incredible surge…
We used 1,000 historical photos to reconstruct Antarctic glaciers before a dramatic collapse
In March 2002, the Larsen B Ice Shelf collapsed catastrophically, breaking up an area about…
AI-powered chatbots are changing how we understand romantic and sexual well-being
Over the past decade, virtual assistants powered by artificial intelligence, like Apple’s Siri and Amazon’s…
Words such as racist slurs can literally hurt – here’s the science
Rishi Sunak, the British prime minister, recently spoke of feeling hurt and angry at racist…
With its latest Moon mission success, China’s space programme has the US in its sights
June 25 2024 marked a new “first” in the history of spaceflight. China’s robotic Chang’e…
If Meta bans news in Australia, what will happen? Canada’s experience is telling
At a parliamentary hearing late last week, Meta once again suggested it could ban links…