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Science
Astronomers used machine learning to mine data from South Africa’s MeerKAT telescope: what they found
New telescopes with unprecedented sensitivity and resolution are being unveiled...
One way to speed up clinical trials: Skip right to the data with electronic medical records
Scientific knowledge, as measured by numbers of papers published, has been estimated...
Astronauts are returning to the Moon, but they won’t be repeating the Apollo missions
If all goes to plan, sometime in November 2024, NASA’s newly announced Artemis II...
The man in the monkey nut coat: how a 1940s scientist made ‘vegan wool’ from peanuts
Woollen clothing has been around for as long as humans have been wearing clothes...
Great Mysteries of Physics: will we ever have a fundamental theory of life and consciousness?
What’s the difference between a living collection of matter, such as a tortoise,...
Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen will be among the next humans to fly to the moon
On April 3, NASA announced the crew for Artemis II, which will see astronauts spending...
Monsters or masters of the deep sea? Why the deepest of deep-sea fish aren’t as scary as you might think
How deep can fish live in the ocean? That question has captivated me for more than...
Meet the next four people headed to the Moon – how the diverse crew of Artemis II shows NASA’s plan for the future of space exploration
On April 3, 2023, NASA announced the four astronauts who will make up the crew of...
Attention plant killers: new research shows your plants could be silently screaming at you
If you’re like me, you’ve managed to kill even the hardiest of indoor plants (yes,...
Polio: leading virologist offers a beginner’s guide to the different viruses and vaccines
On 17 March 2023, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced that health officials...
Brains also have supply chain issues – blood flows where it can, and neurons must make do with what they get
Neuroscientists have long assumed that neurons are greedy, hungry units that demand...
‘QBism’: quantum mechanics is not a description of objective reality – it reveals a world of genuine free will
What does quantum mechanics, the most successful theory ever proposed by physics,...
Great Mysteries of Physics 4: does objective reality exist?
It is hard to shake the intuition that there’s a real and objective physical world...
Can the heat from running computers help grow our food? It’s complicated
Digital technologies are changing how food is produced. And it’s more than harvesting...
Minimum viable whale: Antarctic minke whales may be as small as a krill-eating filter feeder can get in our modern oceans
Meagre giants hide in the ice-covered bays and fjords of the Antarctic peninsula
We’re a step closer to learning how misplaced DNA could influence disease risk
DNA is our body’s instruction manual. It contains all the information that our cells...