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Remarkable set of tracks suggests different dinosaurs herded together

Wed, 07/23/2025 - 3:00pm
Late Cretaceous dinosaur tracks found in Canada might have been made by different species walking together, but the evidence is far from conclusive
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The secret to what makes colours pop on dazzling songbirds

Wed, 07/23/2025 - 3:00pm
Hidden layers of colour in the plumage of tanagers and some other songbirds explain what makes them so eye-catching
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The 25 best fictional robots – according to New Scientist

Wed, 07/23/2025 - 2:00pm
From R2D2 to the Terminator via Bender and Johnny-5, we choose our favourite robots from books, films and television series
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How to spot the Delta Aquariids meteor shower this month

Wed, 07/23/2025 - 2:00pm
A new moon in late July will give us dark skies – perfect for spotting this beautiful meteor shower, says Abigail Beall
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The Prestige is just as clever and thrilling 30 years on

Wed, 07/23/2025 - 2:00pm
Rival magicians in Victorian England both claim they can teleport. Is this all illusion, asks Emily H. Wilson, as she explores Christopher Priest’s extraordinary novel, The Prestige
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Triumphant images of women who climbed to new heights

Wed, 07/23/2025 - 2:00pm
Mountaineering Women: Climbing through history tells the stories of more than a dozen female climbers who have conquered the world's greatest peaks
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Fictional female robots have a long history, and it's often quite dark

Wed, 07/23/2025 - 2:00pm
Sierra Greer's novel about a female robot, Annie Bot, just won a prestigious sci-fi prize, the Arthur C Clarke award. But she is hardly the first of her kind, says Sophie Bushwick
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Social media is dead – here’s what comes next

Wed, 07/23/2025 - 2:00pm
A new information ecosystem is on the rise, featuring closer connections, cosy media and worker-owned websites, writes Annalee Newitz
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Anthropic AI goes rogue when trying to run a vending machine

Wed, 07/23/2025 - 2:00pm
Feedback watches with raised eyebrows as Anthropic's AI Claude is given the job of running the company vending machine, and goes a little off the rails
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Tapping into the full power of music could transform our lives

Wed, 07/23/2025 - 2:00pm
From reducing pain to relieving stress, the evidence for music's power is strong. Stefan Koelsch says we should use it – now
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Homo naledi's burial practices could change what it means to be human

Wed, 07/23/2025 - 2:00pm
If ancient humans with brains a third the size of our own buried their dead, as some archaeologists are claiming, then our species may be less special than we thought
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Simple skincare routine could stop babies developing eczema

Wed, 07/23/2025 - 12:00pm
Keeping a baby's skin moisturised could significantly reduce their risk of eczema - but perhaps only for babies who aren't genetically at risk
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AI helps reconstruct damaged Latin inscriptions from the Roman Empire

Wed, 07/23/2025 - 12:00pm
Google DeepMind and historians created an AI tool called Aeneas that can predict the missing words in Latin inscriptions carved into stone walls and pottery sherds from the ancient Roman Empire.
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What were ancient humans thinking when they began to bury their dead?

Wed, 07/23/2025 - 12:00pm
Claims that a small-brained hominin called Homo naledi buried its dead raise intriguing questions about ancient minds and why we engage in this peculiar practice
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Spectacular Triassic reptile had an early kind of feathers

Wed, 07/23/2025 - 12:00pm
A 247-million-year-old fossil reptile boasted an enormous crest on its back made from feather-like appendages, long before the appearance of feathered dinosaurs
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Gold can be heated to 14 times its melting point without melting

Wed, 07/23/2025 - 12:00pm
With fast heating, sheets of gold can shoot past the theoretical maximum temperature a solid can have before it melts – raising questions about what the true limits are
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AI beats goalkeepers at predicting which way penalty taker will shoot

Wed, 07/23/2025 - 8:00am
By analysing videos of penalty kicks, a deep learning model was able to predict whether a shot would go to the goalkeeper’s left or right with 64 per cent accuracy
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Ancient ‘terror birds’ may have been no match for hungry giant caimans

Tue, 07/22/2025 - 8:01pm
A 13-million-year-old leg bone from an enormous flightless bird carries crocodilian tooth marks, showing South America was once a predator-eat-predator world
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Cleaner air has increased the number of city heatwaves

Tue, 07/22/2025 - 2:00pm
Reducing air pollution is critical for improving public health, but it has brought big climate trade-offs
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DeepMind and OpenAI claim gold in International Mathematical Olympiad

Tue, 07/22/2025 - 1:05pm
Two AI models have achieved gold medal standard for the first time in a prestigious competition for young mathematicians – and their developers claim these AIs could soon crack tough scientific problems
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