Britain has joined the race to become a leading hub of commercial space flight, announcing eight potential sites for a potential “spaceport” within the UK. There are numerous questions surrounding this…
AI could help astronomers crunch the vast amounts of data produced by a new observatory.
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A bloom of new jellyfish started appearing in the Gulf of Venice last autumn. They were first detected by a fisherman from Chioggia in north-east Italy when hundreds of the beautiful yellow species filled…
Collaboration is often promoted as a tool for harnessing collective intelligence. But sometimes working solo is the best option.
A new study finds that the cognitive loss from severe COVID is the same as losing 10 IQ points.
In the 1980s, beach cleanups were envisaged as citizen science, aimed squarely at industrial pollution.
