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Scientists at OpenAI have attempted to stop a frontier AI model from cheating and lying by punishing it. But this just taught it to scheme more privately.

When astronauts return from a prolonged visit to space, they are often carried out of their capsules and placed on stretchers for a medical examination. The 'stranded' astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore will be...

New theoretical physics research introduces a simulation method of machine-learning-based effective Hamiltonian for super-large-scale atomic structures. This effective Hamiltonian method could simulate much larger struct...

Researchers at Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, have shed light on the structure of supercritical water. In this state, which exists at extreme temperatures and pressures, water has the properties of both a liquid and a ...

A new analysis of 105-year-old data on the effectiveness of "dazzle" camouflage on battleships in World War I by Aston University researchers Professor Tim Meese and Dr. Samantha Strong has found that while dazzle had so...

DNA recovered from archaeological remains of ancient humans who lived in what is now Tunisia and northeastern Algeria reveals that European hunter-gatherers may have visited North Africa by boat around 8,500 years ago.

Ancient iguanas sailed around 5,000 miles from North America to Fiji by clinging to floating vegetation, new research suggests.

Researchers at the University of Gothenburg have developed a novel Ising machine that utilizes surface acoustic waves as an effective carrier of dense information flow. This approach enables fast, energy-efficient soluti...

'More people are in harm's way': Tornadoes are shifting east of Tornado Alley, forecasters warn

A death adder at an Australian wildlife park found to have three extremely rare fangs that all produce deadly neurotoxic venom.

For the first time, scientists have acquired direct evidence of rare, pulsing pear-shaped structures within atomic nuclei of the rare-earth element gadolinium, thanks to new research led by the University of Surrey, the ...

In their ongoing efforts to push the boundaries of quantum possibilities, physicists in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis have created a new type of "time crystal," a novel phase of matter that defies...

The collective motion of bacteria--from stable swirling patterns to chaotic turbulent flows--has intrigued scientists for decades. When a bacterial swarm is confined in small circular space, stable rotating vortices are ...

Analysing the aftermath of particle collisions has revealed two new instances of "CP violation", a process that explains why our universe contains more matter than antimatter

Birds do it, chimps do it, even monarch butterflies do it - and by paying more attention to how animals self-medicate, we can find new treatments for ourselves

In a comprehensive experimental study, an international team of researchers has confirmed the calculations of a leading turbulence simulation code to an unprecedented degree. This marks a major breakthrough in understand...

A dramatic solar eclipse on March 29 will be the first one visible in North America since April 2024. Here's how to get the best view of the partial eclipse before it ends.

Researchers have uncovered a surprising phenomenon in the material BiNiO3: when subjected to high pressure at low temperatures, its well-arranged electrical charges are disrupted, leading to a disordered "charge glass" s...

Interconnected materials containing networks are ubiquitous in the world around us--rubber, car tires, human and engineered tissues, woven sheets and chain mail armor. Engineers often want these networks to be as strong ...

The wind on Saturn's largest moon is strong enough to blow around rocks of up to half a metre in diameter, which could put NASA's upcoming Dragonfly mission at risk

Amplified spontaneous emission is a physical phenomenon that entails the amplification of the light spontaneously emitted by excited particles, due to photons of the same frequency triggering further emissions. This phen...

A private moon mission planned for 2027 will be the first step towards commercial lunar mining of rare and expensive helium-3