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Scientists have long debated what the purpose of sleep is.
Shortages of water and power as well as rising air pollution in Iran are at the centre of why citizens are telling their government they want change.
New materials and arrangements are part of the answer to the law reaching its limits.
There’s a pressing need to understand and respond to what’s known as “space weather”.
In Soho, London, 100 years ago, John Logie Baird’s mechanical television system broadcast recognisable human faces for the first time.
Ukraine and Russia’s power grids used to be linked, leaving Russia with a deep understanding of how Kyiv’s energy systems work.
To have a healthy relationship with AI, we must see beauty in imperfection.
AI is replacing tasks we have grown reluctant to do ourselves – thinking, writing, creating, analysing.
As plans for Moon bases gather pace across the globe, battery science may decide whether humans can live beyond Earth.
Science now suggests this may be closer to the truth than researchers originally thought
A new mobile app helps volunteers track down plastic littered along the Irish coast.
As the US increases political pressure on Europe, it’s possible to imagine the continent losing access to key computing services.
Major job cuts at Meta could signal a shift from virtual reality to the broader, less-immersive forms of extended reality.
Some dogs can remember the names of hundreds of objects.
The red-nosed cuxiu monkey is like no other on the planet.
Nvidia’s new AI system, Alpamayo, could prove a major step to making autonomous cars a common sight on our roads.
Humans hunting reindeer reappeared in what is now the British Isles much earlier than previously thought.
Research reveals the brain processes that make some people much less prone to sudden food-related mood swings.
The evacuation was the first such event in the history of the ISS.
Google believes that new features could help smart glasses succeed.
Science fiction imagines wormholes as shortcuts through spacetime. But the original idea suggests they could be something far stranger.
Inspired by the behaviour of flocks of birds, swarm intelligence is being used in drones to tackle the growing threat of wildfires.
The 25th anniversary of Wikipedia’s first public entry comes amid the rapid growth of Elon Musk’s AI-powered alternative, Grokipedia.
A new study shows the woolly rhino was not the inbred, genetically doomed species scientists had thought.