Space is a hostile, extreme environment. It’s only a matter of time before ordinary people are exposed to this environment,…
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Maybe humanity is a little too hung up on AI taking over the world. Yes, it’s an issue – but…
The world has not yet won the war against malaria. While the total number of cases has declined from about…
Cognitively enhanced lawyers may one day work in our courts. A recent report from The Law Society of England and Wales suggests…
The timing and intensity of the seasons shapes life all around us, including tool use by birds, the evolutionary diversification of giraffes, and the behaviour of…
Does rapid eye movement during sleep reveal where you’re looking at in the scenery of dreams, or are they simply…
Nobel laureate economist Richard Thaler famously quipped: People aren’t dumb, the world is hard. Indeed, we routinely encounter problems in our…
Atomic clocks, combined with precise astronomical measurements, have revealed that the length of a day is suddenly getting longer, and…
In what’s reported as a world-first achievement, biologists have grown mouse embryo models in the lab without the need for fertilised…
Ten years ago, scientists announced the discovery of the Higgs boson, which helps explain why elementary particles (the smallest building blocks…