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Can any nation protect against a Ukraine-style drone smuggling attack?

Thu, 06/12/2025 - 6:20am
Ukraine's Operation Spiderweb showed how small, cheap drones can be smuggled into a country and used against expensive military hardware. Now, there are concerns that nations like the US and UK aren't ready to defend against a similar attack
Categories: Astronomy

Disney and Universal lawsuit may be killing blow in AI copyright wars

Wed, 06/11/2025 - 4:58pm
Two huge movie studios are suing Midjourney, claiming the firm’s AI has been trained on their copyrighted material – the entrance of the Hollywood giants into this legal fight could be a watershed moment for AI and copyright
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How to use psychology to feel better about how you look in a swimsuit

Wed, 06/11/2025 - 2:00pm
Recent research delves into our issues with "seasonal body image dissatisfaction", says David Robson, who has advice on how to combat it during the summer months
Categories: Astronomy

Fabulous time travel novel is part-thriller and part-romance

Wed, 06/11/2025 - 2:00pm
In Kaliane Bradley's The Ministry of Time, a young woman must help a naval commander snatched from death in 1847 adapt to the 21st century. Time travel thriller meets romance in this excellent novel
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Inside Europe's largest jellyfish farm

Wed, 06/11/2025 - 2:00pm
Images from a jellyfish-breeding facility in Germany showcase the luminous invertebrates' environmental challenges and medical promise
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Physicist Frank Close's new book is a welcome rework of the atomic age

Wed, 06/11/2025 - 2:00pm
The story of the birth and growth of nuclear science is rebalanced in Destroyer of Worlds, which gives due prominence to the role of women
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Trump's proposed science cuts will have huge consequences

Wed, 06/11/2025 - 2:00pm
The universe will still be there to marvel at, despite brutal cuts set to hit NASA and the National Science Foundation's budgets. But the damage to future research will be long-lasting, says Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
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Does this new tent repel both water and the laws of physics?

Wed, 06/11/2025 - 2:00pm
Feedback is tickled by a marketing email touting a new range of tents, which promises revolutionary waterproofing technology
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A woman's body is a man's world. Just ask an anatomist...

Wed, 06/11/2025 - 2:00pm
From Fallopian tubes to the G-spot, long-dead men have left their mark on women's anatomy. It's time to turf them out, says Adam Taor
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A compelling book asks if we are killing off the idea of private life

Wed, 06/11/2025 - 2:00pm
How did we lose the sense that some parts of life should be off-limits rather than open to commodification? Tiffany Jenkins's thoughtful new book Strangers and Intimates explores
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The discovery that cancer hacks nerves could lead to fairer treatments

Wed, 06/11/2025 - 2:00pm
With rising cancer rates, we need more good news, and the latest finding that cancer interacts with the nervous system means cheap and readily available drugs could help
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Cyborg tadpoles are helping us learn how brain development starts

Wed, 06/11/2025 - 12:16pm
Implants that monitor the neural activity of frog embryos as they grow into tadpoles and then adults could offer a window into the developing brain
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Mind-reading AI turns paralysed man's brainwaves into instant speech

Wed, 06/11/2025 - 12:00pm
A brain-computer interface has enabled a man with paralysis to have real-time conversations, without the usual delay in speech
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The man quietly spending $1 billion on climate action

Wed, 06/11/2025 - 12:00pm
From geoengineering to anti-methane cow vaccines and green aviation fuel, meet the former nuclear physicist helping to decide which climate change technologies hold the most promise
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These images are the first time we have seen the sun's south pole

Wed, 06/11/2025 - 11:00am
The Solar Orbiter spacecraft, a joint mission between the European Space Agency and NASA, is the first to venture into a tilted orbit around the sun, letting it take some unusual pictures
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Can we stop big tech from controlling the internet with AI agents?

Wed, 06/11/2025 - 10:00am
With tech giants like Google developing ways for AI models to communicate and work together, there are fears that smaller players could get left behind in the rush to unleash AI agents on the internet
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'Impossible' particle that hit Earth may have been dark matter

Wed, 06/11/2025 - 8:09am
We may already have had our first-ever encounter with dark matter, according to researchers who say a mysteriously high-energy particle detected in 2023 is not a neutrino after all, but something far stranger
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The arid air of Death Valley may actually be a valuable water source

Wed, 06/11/2025 - 6:00am
An innovative device extracted a small glassful of water from the air of Death Valley desert over one day
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Meta's AI memorised books verbatim – that could cost it billions

Tue, 06/10/2025 - 2:00pm
Many AI models were trained on the text of books, but a new test found at least one model has directly memorised nearly the entirety of some books, including Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, which could complicate ongoing legal battles over copyright infringement
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Ancient humans’ extraordinary journey to South America

Tue, 06/10/2025 - 2:00pm
Humans first arrived in South America through a series of extraordinary migrations – and genetic studies now reveal more about how they settled and then split into four distinct groups on the continent
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