Robotic equipment can implant electrodes into cockroaches and connect them to an electronic backpack, making it feasible to ...

Footprints preserved on the shore of Lake Turkana in Kenya seem to be from two ancient human species, showing they lived ...

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Tiny robots designed to carry out environmental or industrial tasks could be powered by tricks involving surface tension ...

Recent developments in AI and neurological research may prompt concern. However, placing outright bans on such research is ...

The Acidalia Planitia region of the Red Planet might have all the requirements for methane-burping bacteria to exist beneath ...

Researchers have used lasers to encode information in diamonds, demonstrating record-breaking data density in an ultra-stable ...

Physicists have long wondered why particles can only have an electric charge of +1, -2 or any whole number. Now we ...

The content you see on social media is often determined by an algorithm - and it turns out that these algorithms can rapidly ...

An analysis of hundreds of bromalites – fossilised faeces and vomit – shows how changes in diet enabled dinosaurs to take ...

Determining when someone died based on their decomposing body is a subjective task, but artificial intelligence could bring ...

Countries are meeting in South Korea this week to hash out the final details of a global treaty aimed at eliminating plastic ...