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Have we found the world’s nichest science-themed tourist attraction?
Feedback's long-running quest to discover delightfully obscure science sites may have reached its zenith with the discovery of two excellent
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Don’t know where to start with AI? Kevin Roose’s new book has answers
Despite disagreeing over when (or if) AI will achieve human-level intelligence, Jacob Aron thoroughly recommends The AGI Chronicles by Kevin
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Tom Gauld on the real risks of AI
Tom Gauld's weekly cartoon
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Twisteddoodles: ‘I made an AI version of you’
This week's cartoon from Twisteddoodles
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Why gatekeeping is needed in the age of AI
Large language models have unleashed a torrent of text – dealing with it won't be easy
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OpenAI has dumped 722 maths papers – now it must clean up the mess
OpenAI is using mathematics as a test site for its most capable AI models, and that means it has a responsibility to deal with the fallout,
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Stunning early mammal fossil sheds light on the evolution of suckling
A predecessor of modern mammals that lived in the Jurassic has been found in China with its throat anatomy preserved, allowing researchers t
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Colonisation of Australia led to big increase in wildfire danger
An analysis of lake sediments in south-eastern Australia has revealed that the expulsion of Indigenous communities in the 19th century resul
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Why rediscovering extinct species can actually be a bad thing
Finding that long-lost plants and animals are still alive often isn’t an unmitigated cause for celebration, says evolutionary biologist Aely
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OpenAI announces 722 mathematical discoveries in one go
AI has been growing ever more capable in mathematics, but now OpenAI has released hundreds of papers at the same time – to the astonishment
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Nobel prize in chemistry awarded for work on mirror molecules
Henri Kagan and Kenso Soai have been honoured for their work on making molecules form the correct mirror images
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The telescope that could reveal what dark matter and dark energy are
The Roman telescope is NASA’s newest space observatory. Every 10 months, it will get the equivalent of about 1000 years' worth of Hubble obs
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Shoes may change the structure of our ankle bones
Wearing shoes seems to affect the density and volume of a spongy network within a bone in our ankles, which could affect the validity of pre
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Impossibly fast-moving stars are revealing the Milky Way’s mysterious heart
Near the centre of the Milky Way, a swarm of stars hurtles around a supermassive black hole at extraordinary speeds. Studying them could be
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The most ambitious ideas to save the world from El Niño
A monster El Niño is brewing in the Pacific Ocean – but there may be ways we can stop the worst impacts from occurring
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Nobel prize in physics awarded for discovery of high-energy neutrinos
The 2026 Nobel prize in physics has been won by Francis Halzen for his work on neutrinos, which act like 'ghostly messengers from the cosmos
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Extinct yak relative discovered from DNA in Denisova cave
Genetic analysis of hundreds of tiny bone fragments found in the same cave that yielded the first fossil remains of the Denisovans has revea
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Extinct yak relative discovered from DNA in Denisova cave
Genetic analysis of hundreds of tiny bone fragments found in the same cave that yielded the first fossil remains of the Denisovans has revea
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Can we harness the brain’s deep-cleaning system to prevent Alzheimer’s?
The glymphatic system is the brain's recently discovered network for flushing out toxins. Now, we're uncovering surprising ways to boost it
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AI finds bafflingly complex but beautiful symmetrical Venn diagram
Creating rotationally symmetrical Venn diagrams of increasing size is a long-standing mathematical challenge - now an amateur has used AI to
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Nearly 200 people isolated after lab worker in Russia dies of plague
A lab accident is said to have led to the death of a woman from pneumonic plague in the Irkutsk region of Siberia, leading to nearly 200 pos
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Compressing bones releases molecules that ease traumatic brain injuries
Pressing down on shin bones improved cognitive and motor symptoms in mice and pigs with traumatic brain injuries
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What disasters will El Niño bring over the next year?
From wildfires to landslides to coral bleaching, past trends suggest what extreme weather the record El Niño will bring – but the world isn’
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Nobel prize for medicine goes to trio who developed optogenetics
The 2026 Nobel prize in physiology or medicine has gone to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel for the development of techniques
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