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Australia wants to ban social media for under-16s, but it won't work

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AI models work together faster when they speak their own language

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Satellites spot methane leaks – but ‘super-emitters’ don’t fix them

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COP29 host Azerbaijan faces climate disaster as Caspian Sea dries up

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A 200-year-old mystery about newts has finally been solved

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A unique pair of galactic lenses may help solve a cosmological riddle

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How we misunderstood what the Lucy fossil reveals about ancient humans

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There's a new twist on the famous invisible gorilla psychology study

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Weight-loss medications may also ease chronic pain

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Plumes of pollution from big factories can make it snow

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Twin spacecraft will launch to create an artificial solar eclipse

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People prefer AI-generated poems to Shakespeare and Dickinson

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Bizarre test shows light can actually cast its own shadow

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Watch autonomous cars do doughnuts and drift sideways round corners

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Starship launch flight 6: When is Elon Musk’s SpaceX flight test?

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World’s largest coral is 300 years old and was discovered by accident

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Mounting evidence points to air pollution as a cause of eczema

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12,000-year-old stones may be oldest example of wheel-like tools

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You can't put a price on the sense of awe particle physics inspires

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We must use genetic technologies now to avert the coming food crisis

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To truly understand non-human grief, we need to think like the animals

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The dilemma of mining more metals so we can ditch fossil fuels

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Major US art event explores the bonds between art and science

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How to take a quantum approach to finding love

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How I learned to love looking at the moon – and you can too

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Does this high-tech lettuce hold the answer to the global food crisis?

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A personal investigation into the crisis of men's mental health

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Why we now think the myopia epidemic can be slowed – or even reversed

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Sweeter tomatoes are coming soon thanks to CRISPR gene editing

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Millions of phones create most complete map ever of the ionosphere

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Exquisite bird fossil provides clues to the evolution of avian brains

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Drought, fires and fossil fuels push CO2 emissions to a record high

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Migratory birds can use Earth's magnetic field like a GPS

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Orbital wins the Booker prize: “I see it as a kind of space pastoral"

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Google Street View helps map how 600,000 trees grow down to the limb

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Jets of liquid bounce off hot surfaces without ever touching them

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Next Mauna Loa eruption could be forecast months in advance

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A new life on Mars? Expect toxic dust, bad vibes and insects for lunch

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This robot can build anything you ask for out of blocks

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SpaceX targets Starship flight next week – just a month after last one

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Red kites and buzzards are being killed by misuse of rat poisons

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How a single gopher restored a landscape devastated by a volcano

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Humanity has warmed the planet by 1.5°C since 1700

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Lights on surfboards and wetsuits could deter shark attacks

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Our only visit to Uranus came at an unusual time for the planet

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Is the climate change food crisis even worse than we imagined?

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Audio AIs are trained on data full of bias and offensive language

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Any delay in reaching net zero will influence climate for centuries

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AI helps robot dogs navigate the real world

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Chimps do better at difficult tasks when they have an audience

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