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After Christmas dinner in 2021, our family was glued to the television, watching the nail-biting…
Why industry-standard labels for AI in music could change how we listen
Earlier this year, a band called The Velvet Sundown racked up hundreds of thousands of…
‘Space tornadoes’ could cause geomagnetic storms – but these phenomena, spun off ejections from the Sun, aren’t easy to study
Weather forecasting is a powerful tool. During hurricane season, for instance, meteorologists create computer simulations…
The UK military says Russia targets its satellites on a weekly basis. What can be done about it?
Russia is targeting UK space infrastructure, and in particular military satellites, on a weekly basis,…
Unusual red rocks in Australia are rewriting the rules on exceptional fossil sites
Hidden beneath farmland in the central tablelands of New South Wales lies one of Australia’s…
what this says about ocean health
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Nobel Prize in physics awarded for ultracold electronics research that launched a quantum technology
Quantum mechanics describes the weird behavior of microscopic particles. Using quantum systems to perform computation…
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,…
The world’s most sensitive computer code is vulnerable to attack. A new encryption method can help
Nowadays data breaches aren’t rare shocks – they’re a weekly drumbeat. From leaked customer records…
OpenAI’s newly launched Sora 2 makes AI’s environmental impact impossible to ignore
OpenAI’s recent rollout of its new video generator Sora 2 marks a watershed moment in…