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Trump administration takes aim at crucial ocean monitor...

The Ocean Observatories Initiative has been collecting data on physical, chemica...

How Gödel numbers turn mathematical laws against themse...

By encoding mathematical statements into numbers, mathematician Kurt Gödel used ...

Sturgeon fish sex sounds like ‘thunder’

These sounds could be used to track the health of populations of the endangered ...

Trump’s new AI executive order drastically shifts the a...

This order asks artificial intelligence companies to give the U.S. government up...

In a first, scientists transplanted both a pig liver an...

The transplanted pig organs functioned for 36 hours before showing signs of reje...

Microsoft’s upgraded Majorana quantum computing chip fi...

Microsoft’s announcement of a new quantum computing breakthrough with its Majora...

Trump's psychedelics executive order could accelerate n...

The Trump administration has fast-tracked research into psychedelics, and expert...

Questioning everything

Where did stars, and light itself, come from? Is there a hidden sector of partic...

Mathematicians sign declaration to rein in AI use

A group of researchers have proposed rules to prevent artificial intelligence fr...

Oldest cave art in the U.K. discovered inside Welsh cave

A new analysis of red lines inside a cave in Wales suggest they were made delibe...

Hyperbaric oxygen therapy is being explored as a long C...

Some clinics are touting pressurized oxygen chambers as a treatment for long COV...

Oldest cave art in the U.K. discovered inside Wales cave

A new analysis of red lines inside a U.K. cave suggest they were made deliberate...

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China launches rival to SpaceX Falcon 9 with zero warning

China apparently didn’t issue any airspace or maritime notices ahead of the maid...

How the war in Iran is affecting your dinner plate

Agriculture is at risk of a crisis because of this Middle East conflict. The rea...

Andrew Scott talks about World War II, D-Day and weathe...

Andrew Scott plays World War II meteorologist James Stagg in a new film Pressure...

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