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AI is ready to stop playing games and move on to other challenges.
The two mathematicians are true pioneers in their fields.
Lightning -- and not meteorites -- may have seeded life on Earth.
The fastest-growing mushrooms can't do it, just the more resilient ones.
The mini-brains were able to learn how to play the game faster than an AI.
Urban floods are about to become that much worse.
We need as many ways to get rid of plastic as possible.
A rare mix of science and eye candy that will make you go "huh, I didn't know that" every other page.
What have we learned since the 2011 tragedy?
It's so ancient it could help us understand the building blocks of planets.
It's a dark episode in human history.
The study helps combat romantic ideas about this ancient population.
This ancient village fought against the sea.
The method used on 'Sherlock' has actually been used since Roman times, with great success.
Sea otters hadn't been seen on the North California Coast since the 1880s -- but they're back to help protect the kelp forests.
It's unlike anything that's been seen before.
While still far away, herd immunity is now at least in sight.
CCS (or carbon capture and storage) is one of the terms that often pops up in the climate debate -- and for good reason.
Archaeologists excavating the ancient city of Sardis found a 1,500 year-old-house in fantastic shape. Not only is the house excellently preserved, but its tiles were decorated with puppy prints and chicken decorations. It’s not as well-known as the likes of Athens or Rome, but in its heyday, the ancient city of Sardis would have rivalled […]
"The Spanish-Portuguese border acts as a quasi-impermeable barrier", researchers note.
Bad news for allergy sufferers: it's getting worse.
Believers value group cohesion, while atheists focus on the effects of their actions.
Yes, piracy is still a problem -- and it goes hand in hand with bad or illegal fishing practices.
It has an exposure time of 8 years.
The same is likely true for forests all around the world.
I mean, what else could it be?
Human visitors to Mars could bring along numerous microscopic colonizers. That's both good and bad.
A bizzare, never-before-seen form of preservation could shed new light on a primeval type of bird.
The relationship between video games and mental health is more complex than you thought.
A former Soviet bioware lab is investigating ancient permafrost viruses.
Things are about to get crowded.
The emblematic Norwegian stave churches are being measured using new technology.
It's all about taking risks: you don't need to take them when you're rich.
A new study suggests our troubles with coronaviruses may only be beginning.
Just 66 cases of anaphylaxis (0.0003%) were reported. All but one happened in the first 11 minutes. None were fatal.
There's more life than we expected in the Antarctic.
Neanderthals were every bit as smart and creative as humans.
If we'd listen to whales more carefully, we could learn more about the oceans' geology.
Antarctica's a weird place. It has a Burger King, a few coffee shops, but no real inhabitants.
As if Stonehenge wasn't impressive enough, it appears to have been carried for almost 200 miles.
It’s easy to forget, in the current situation, that the world is still heating up severely. If the COVID-19 pandemic is a wave sweeping through the world, then climate change is a tsunami looming darkly on the horizon and already starting to strike. Yes, climate change is hitting us already, probably in more ways than […]
You don't get a vaccine and become immune the next second. It usually takes a while -- and we're not sure how long it lasts.
What mushrooms are doing when humans aren't looking.
Vaccination probably doesn't work the way you imagine it does.
Of course, the company's current products look quite different.
How's the richest country in the world doing?
It was probably the most interesting year in history -- and you've never even heard about it.
They ruled a big part of today's Turkey and defeated the legendary king Midas.
Myopia affects almost 2 billion people. For many of them, surgery is not an option.
Conservative politicians receive as much if not more attention on social media.
