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Culling predatory starfish conserves coral on the Great Barrier Reef

Wed, 04/24/2024 - 3:00pm
Targeted culling of crown-of-thorns starfish has resulted in parts of the Great Barrier Reef maintaining and even increasing coral cover, leading researchers to call for the programme to be dramatically scaled up
Categories: Astronomy

These photos show how a warmer climate is damaging Earth's waters

Wed, 04/24/2024 - 2:00pm
Photographer Diane Tuft has documented how global warming is affecting bodies of water around the world
Categories: Astronomy

This one-room sci-fi thriller should take its MacGuffin more seriously

Wed, 04/24/2024 - 2:00pm
In Breathe, Earth is stripped of its oxygen, the plants are dead, oceans are dried up, no one trusts anyone — but we don't know what caused it. This sci-fi film fails to stand out among superior one-room thrillers, says Simon Ings
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Why curbing chatbots' worst exploits is a game of whack-a-mole

Wed, 04/24/2024 - 2:00pm
AI companies are trying to impose safety measures on their chatbots, while researchers are finding ways around them all the time. Where will this end, asks Alex Wilkins
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The next frontier of forensic science: blood splatter in microgravity?

Wed, 04/24/2024 - 2:00pm
Feedback is pleased to see that researchers are looking into the urgent issue of which angle blood might travel at following a violent act in space
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Why we need to modernise our emotional relationship with cancer

Wed, 04/24/2024 - 2:00pm
Cancer has been one of the world's most feared diseases for decades. But this "cancerphobia" no longer matches the evidence and is doing great harm, argues David Ropeik
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A radical new book sets out to hunt for 'pure consciousness'

Wed, 04/24/2024 - 2:00pm
Thomas Metzinger's The Elephant and the Blind explores deep meditation, which can take us to states where the sense of self vanishes, arguing that this may be crucial in cracking consciousness
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Let's not trash recycling technologies that could end plastic waste

Wed, 04/24/2024 - 2:00pm
Some environmental campaigners claim that attempts to create a circular economy for plastics are doomed to fail – but the arguments can be disingenuous
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Huge genetic study redraws the tree of life for flowering plants

Wed, 04/24/2024 - 12:00pm
Using genomic data from more than 9500 species, biologists have mapped the evolutionary relationships between flowering plants
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Nuclear fusion experiment overcomes two key operating hurdles

Wed, 04/24/2024 - 12:00pm
Two important barriers to a stable, powerful fusion reaction have been leapt by an experiment in a small tokamak reactor, but we don’t yet know if the technique will work in larger devices
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A new kind of experiment at the LHC could unravel quantum reality

Wed, 04/24/2024 - 12:00pm
The Large Hadron Collider is testing entanglement in a whole new energy range, probing the meaning of quantum theory – and the possibility that an even stranger reality lies beneath
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Your diet may influence how effective vaccines are for you

Wed, 04/24/2024 - 8:00am
Obese mice that lost weight on a low-fat diet before getting a flu shot had better immune responses than those that lost weight afterwards, suggesting diet and weight loss influence vaccine efficacy
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Huge dinosaur footprints belonged to one of the largest raptors ever

Wed, 04/24/2024 - 1:00am
A set of large, distinctive footprints suggest a raptor dinosaur that lived in East Asia 96 million years ago grew to a length of 5 metres
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Exquisite fossils of Cretaceous shark solve mystery of how it hunted

Tue, 04/23/2024 - 8:01pm
Six full-body fossils of Ptychodus sharks have been formally analysed for the first time, revealing that they were fast swimmers that preyed on shelled creatures
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Climate change could make it harder to detect submarines

Tue, 04/23/2024 - 4:30pm
Climate change’s effects on ocean water temperatures and salinity could shrink sonar detection ranges underwater and make it more challenging to spot submarines
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Will Amazon's robotic revolution spark a new wave of job losses?

Tue, 04/23/2024 - 12:00pm
Amazon says it will create new jobs to replace roles taken over by machines, but it isn’t clear whether this will happen quickly enough
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How to get the right balance of omega-3s and omega-6s in your diet

Tue, 04/23/2024 - 12:00pm
The balance of omega fatty acids in the food we eat affects our health. But what does the evidence say about claims you should be seeking to reduce omega-6 intake as well as boosting omega-3s?
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Ships smuggling Russian oil spotted in satellite images by AI

Tue, 04/23/2024 - 11:00am
AI can analyse satellite images to reveal the movements of dark ships in a shadow fleet that smuggles oil and other cargo from sanctioned countries such as Russia, Iran, Venezuela and North Korea
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Should we tweak the atmosphere to counteract global warming?

Tue, 04/23/2024 - 10:43am
With severe climate impacts becoming more and more apparent, many scientists think we should explore ways to block out solar radiation, but doing so would be risky
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Glucose monitors may misclassify people as being at risk of diabetes

Tue, 04/23/2024 - 8:00am
Our blood sugar levels vary a lot from day to day, so results from continuous glucose monitors need to be interpreted with caution
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