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Two of the three science Nobel prizes in 2024 have been won by people working in AI, but does this mean that AI models are ...

Ancient volcanic rock from South Africa has been found to harbour primitive bacteria, which may shed light on some of the ...

The ion tail of C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) could appear as a blue streak across the northern hemisphere sky during October ...

Hurricanes often produce tornadoes that add to the destructive power of the storm – and climate change may make such ...

Key climate indicators from greenhouse gas levels to ice loss have reached record levels this year in what researchers call a ...

David Baker, Demis Hassabis and John M. Jumper have been awarded the 2024 Nobel prize in chemistry for research on predicting ...

How well do we look after people who are seriously sick? Astonishingly, research is scant – which makes Neil Vickers and ...

Hurricanes have kept forecasters guessing this year, but with the arrival of intense storms like Helene and Milton it is ...

The latest neuroscience shows that, contrary to a lot of productivity advice, the drive to make the most of every waking ...

If gravity is a truly quantum entity, something as simple as measuring the strength of an object’s gravitational field should ...