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Two new AI agents offer to help researchers speed up science work. | Photo Credit: ThisIsEngineering/Unsplash AI agents Co-Scientist, Robin could accelerate research Two new AI agents, Google Co-Scientist and FutureHouse Robin, offer to help researchers accelerate science work. Rather than replace scientists, they are intended as virtual collaborators. By generating and refining hypotheses, while…
SpaceX’s Starship 39 rocket launches from Starbase during the 12th test flight as seen from South Padre Island, Texas, on May 22, 2026. | Photo Credit: AFP SpaceX launched its biggest, most powerful Starship yet on a test flight Friday (May 22, 2026), an upgraded version that NASA is counting on to land astronauts on…
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By >Anne-Marie Hodge, University of Wyoming When it comes to sex among guppies, competition is high for those at the top of the game. To get around this predicament, >a recent study has shown, guppies use trickery. Competition in fish of the Poeciliidae family (fresh-water fish to which guppies belong) is especially intense, because members…
By >Josephine Lethbridge , The Conversation Human foetuses begin to hear sounds outside the womb at about 27 weeks. But whether foetuses can learn from these sounds in ways that shape speech perception and development during infancy has remained unclear. >New research from the University of Helsinki suggests that humans begin to distinguish between sounds…
If you’ve ever been frustrated by erratic memories, spare a thought for the mice involved in a study published in the journal >Science . Researchers have been able to consistently create a “false memory”, making a mouse fearful of a place it has no reason to fear. The memory was implanted by shining blue light…
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By >Daniel Zadik , Leicester University The DNA of Albert Perry may change the story of human origins. Perry, an African-American, approached a DNA testing company to find out more about his ancestry. >The results would have come as quite a surprise (had he lived to see them), and have raised questions >for geneticists around…
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Astronomers have been searching for a mysterious substance called “dark matter” since the 1930s. Most scientists still believe it exists, despite many fruitless decades. Now we propose a new theory of general relativity that may ultimately get rid of the need for dark matter, and perhaps get physicists to think in terms of things we…
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By >Simon Cotton , University of Birmingham There are >allegations that a nerve agent was used in Syria recently. According to US officials, it >killed more than 1,400 people, including 400 children. But since then, in a >more recent incident , a bomb dropped on a school caused many children to suffer from burns. The…
August 30, 2013 — A colossal and previously unmapped canyon has been found under Greenlandâs ice sheet. The canyon is 750km long, almost twice the length of the Grand Canyon in Arizona. Graphic shows location of the Greenland Canyon A previously unknown canyon has been discovered in Greenland, hidden beneath the ice. It is at…
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By >Simon Redfern , University of Cambridge On the morning of June 30 in 1908, a gigantic fireball devastated hundreds of square kilometres of uninhabited Siberian forest around the Tunguska river. The first scientists to investigate the impact site expected to find a meteorite, but they found nothing. Because no traces of a meteorite were…
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