Experiments involving AI chatbots interacting on a simulated social media platform suggest efforts to design out antagonistic ...

Men typically lose Y chromosomes from their cells as they get older, which could be affecting their heart health ...

Researchers are testing whether increasing UV radiation is altering chemistry of tree leaves, increasing the likelihood and ...

Having a full-time job in later life has been linked to improved emotional, financial and general life satisfaction - but the ...

Bone fragments found on King George Island have been identified as Dennis "Tink" Bell, a British meteorologist who fell into ...

The numbers of many tropical birds are plummeting, and now it has been shown that heat extremes intensified by global warming ...

A carbon dioxide removal company in Canada is experimenting with ways to treat mining waste to capture and store more CO2 ...

In people with traumatic brain injury, treatment with the psychedelic drug ibogaine seems to slow down brainwaves, which may ...

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The quickest way to win the board game Guess Who? involves asking sneaky questions that involve a logical paradox, according ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has detected a possible gas giant the size of Saturn in the stellar system nearest our own ...

The deformed wing and sacbrood viruses were thought to cause asymptomatic infections in adult bees. But the viruses make the ...