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Artists and scientists explore how we subconsciously perceive subtle proportions in trees.
Discovering new materials could drive forward areas such as green technology and advanced electronics.
In this course, eight professors share their disciplinary perspectives to help students analyze proposed interventions for increasing wildfire risks.
This evaluation shows how competitive DeepSeek’s R1 chatbot is, beating OpenAI’s flagship models for performance as well as price.
The technology could help produce more resistant materials and allow scientists more control over fusion reactions.
The footprints were uncovered at a large quarry in Oxfordshire.
Genetics shows that women stayed put in Late Iron Age Dorset, while men moved to other groups.
A global new survey shows there’s no crisis of trust in scientists, as some might claim. But there are some nuances.
Biden’s legacy includes elevating science’s influence in federal decision-making and considering the social and ethical effects of research.
Attosecond science allows the extremely fast movements of electron particles to be observed. This emerging field brings both opportunity and controversy.
Quantum computers can explore every possible solution to a problem at the same time.
For example, the first Trump administration tried to use the principles of transparency to prevent federal agencies from considering major health studies when setting pollution rules.
AI could concentrate capabilities in the hands of a relatively small number of organisations.
Three Conversation science editors look ahead to what to expect in 2025 on The Conversation Weekly podcast.
Techniques like machine learning will give these simulations greater predictive power.
Bacteria that are mirror images of existing ones could evade our immune systems, causing serious illness.
Chocaholic nations win more Nobel Prizes, but that doesn’t mean much. It’s easy to link two things – the hard part is working out which one causes the other.
Less than a month since the government paused New Zealand’s science curriculum refresh, an international study puts our students in the middle of the pack – with worrying results for poorer schools.
The results from the 2023 ‘Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study’ were released on Wednesday night. Year 8 students, who also did the test, held steady.
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