Science
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DeepMind AI predicts weather more accurately than existing forecasts
Today’s weather forecasts rely on simulations that require a lot of computing power Petrovich9/Getty Images/iStockphoto Google DeepMind claims its latest…
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Mesopotamians felt happiness in their liver and anger in their thighs
Modern and Mesopotamian people embody emotions in different ways Modern/PNAS: Lauri Nummenmaa et al. 2014, Mesopotamian: Juha Lahnakoski 2024 The…
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The theory of evolution can evolve without rejecting Darwinism
Darwinian thinking has been challenged many times, starting with co-discoverer of natural selection Alfred Russel Wallace, who disagreed with some…
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These are the most mind-melting physics discoveries of 2024
The universe is even weirder than you’d expect andrey_l/Shutterstock The following is an extract from our Lost in Space-Time newsletter.…
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The best new sci-fi this month from George R. R. Martin to a Three-Body Problem graphic novel
Game of Thrones author George R. R. Martin, editor of anthologies set in the Wild Cards universe Paras Griffin/Getty Images…
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Quantum time travel: The experiment to ‘send a particle into the past’
Ryan wills/istock/Amtitus When Seth Lloyd first published his ideas about quantum time loops, he hadn’t considered all the consequences. For…
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Why did humans evolve big brains? A new idea bodes ill for our future
Nobody doubts that Albert Einstein had a brilliant mind. But the Nobel prizewinner, famous for his theories of special and…
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These are most mind-melting physics discoveries of 2024
The universe is even weirder than you’d expect andrey_l/Shutterstock The following is an extract from our Lost in Space-Time newsletter.…
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New forms of animals made by fusing several comb jellies together
A warty comb jelly (Mnemiopsis leidyi) Andrey Nekrasov / Alamy Stock Photo It may be the closest scientists have yet…
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A small asteroid hit Earth and burned up over Siberia
An image from a webcam showing the asteroid burning up in the atmosphere above Siberia LenskLR/YouTube An asteroid around 70…
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