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Stone Age people in Europe appear to have recorded the reproductive habits of animals with markings on cave paintings, hinting at the early origins of writing

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In February, an AI from DoNotPay is set to tell a defendant exactly what to say and when during an entire court case. It is likely to be the first ever case defended by an artificial intelligence

Adding salt to a road before a winter storm changes when ice will form. Researchers at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have applied this basic concept to develop a new meth...

A device uses quantum effects to create images of objects from light that never touched actually touched them

Findings reveal how a person's cognitive performance prior to viral exposure can predict the severity of symptoms once the virus develops.

A trial of 160 people found that pairing standard epilepsy therapies with a low-carbohydrate diet reduced seizures by more than 50 per cent in a quarter of participants

Including its 130-metre-long legs, the Voltaire wind turbine installation vessel is 336 metres high. It is on its way from China to the North Sea, where it will install huge new turbines at Dogger Bank

Nuclear physicists have found a new way to use the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC)--a particle collider at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory--to see the shape and details inside ...

Laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) is a rapid chemical analysis technology that has been well developed for trace element analyses in gases, liquids, and solids. It uses a high-power laser pulse to elicit short-...

As technologies keep advancing at exponential rates and demand for new devices rises accordingly, miniaturizing systems into chips has become increasingly important. Microelectronics has changed the way we manipulate ele...

Why that is, is a mystery

We pay little attention to the feeling of awe, but, as Dacher Keltner's new book argues, it can make our lives more meaningful - and could even help us engage with huge problems like the climate crisis

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Parasites get everywhere. From 30-metre-long tapeworms in blue whales to leeches living in hippos' anuses, Parasites: The inside story explores what its authors believe is the most successful lifestyle on Earth

There are other ways to explain wave-particle duality than Albert Einstein's, but we don't teach them. Excluding the conceptual challenges of quantum mechanics from the classroom limits our students, says Chanda Prescod-...

Science is key to addressing global health challenges, but if its advances to be implemented then researchers must work hand in glove with the arts, says Danielle Olsen

A soupçon of nitric acid could do the trick

That, rather than the surge of cases in China, is the main reason for worry

The deep blue of your LED display is likely produced by indium gallium nitride (InGaN), a costly substance. In the field of LEDs, researchers are seeking alternatives in a type of perovskite known as quasi-2D Ruddlesden'...

Black holes form natural time machines that allow travel to both the past and the future. But don't expect to be heading back to visit the dinosaurs anytime soon. At present, we don't have spacecraft that could get us an...

Researchers have developed artificial tissue that enabled pigs with penis injuries to have an erection. The work may lead to new treatments for erectile dysfunction