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The US is ramping up bird flu surveillance – but will it be enough?
Dairy cows in California Marmaduke St. John / Alamy Stock Photo The US has ramped up influenza surveillance amid an…
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Certain quantum systems may be able to defy entropy’s effects forever
Some quantum systems may resist a process involved in entropy Giroscience / Science Photo Library The fundamental laws of physics…
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2024 Nobel prize for physics goes to pair who invented key AI techniques
John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton share the 2024 Nobel prize in physics Christine Olsson/TT/Shutterstock The 2024 Nobel prize in physics…
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Microscopic gears powered by light could be used to make tiny machines
Gears about 10 micrometres wide made from etched silicon, viewed with an electron microscope Gan Wang / Myfab Chalmers Minuscule…
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Growing number of Earth’s ‘vital signs’ endangered by climate change
A wildfire burns in California on 30 July 2024 David McNew/Getty Images A growing number of the planet’s “vital signs”…
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A cave in France is revealing how the Neanderthals died out
Around 41,000 years ago, the very last Neanderthal took their final breath. At that moment, we became the only remaining hominins,…
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AIs can work together in much larger groups than humans ever could
Copies of the same artificial intelligence model can work together Eugene Mymrin/Getty Images We can struggle to maintain working relationships…
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Hot sauce taste test reveals how expectations shape pleasure and pain
How will your brain react to that hot sauce? Ihor Butko/Alamy Anticipating pleasure or pain before tasting hot sauce appears…
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See the stunning winners from the Wildlife Photographer of the Year
The Swarm of Life by Shane Gross Image by Shane Gross BIRDS of a feather flock together – and so do…
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Your toothbrush is teeming with hundreds of types of viruses
Our toothbrushes host huge numbers of viruses as well as bacteria Kathrin Ziegler/Getty Images Hundreds of viruses that infect bacteria…
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