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Physicists have worked out how to melt any material
Predicting when solids will melt is more difficult than you might think r.classen/Shutterstock Physicists may finally have an answer for…
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Europa Clipper: NASA’s mission to moon of Jupiter isn’t meant to find alien life – but it could
An artist’s impression of Europa Clipper near the moon it is named after NASA An instrument on a NASA spacecraft…
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Gold flecks make super-transparent glass fully opaque from one side
Objects seen through a glare-free material are clear, while conventional anti-glare film (right) blurs the view Mu Wang et al./Nanjing…
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Exclusive: Aid groups have no concrete long-term health plans for Gaza
Children at a temporary shelter in Rafah, in southern Gaza Rizek Abdeljawad/Xinhua/Alamy The situation in Gaza is rapidly devolving into…
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AI could help replicate smells in danger of being lost to history
Some scents are at risk of vanishing forever. Can AI replicate them? blickwinkel/Alamy Artificial intelligence can whip up the formula…
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Why science relies too much on mathematics
The following is an extract from our Lost in Space-Time newsletter. Each month, we hand over the keyboard to a…
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Realism of OpenAI’s Sora video generator raises security concerns
The AI program Sora generated a video featuring this artificial woman based on a text prompt Sora/OpenAI OpenAI has unveiled…
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Blood vessels made with 3D-printed ice could improve lab-grown organs
A 3D-printed ice template of blood vessels Philip LeDuc et al./Carnegie Mellon University Complex artificial organs could be created by…
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AI chatbots tend to choose violence and nuclear strikes in wargames
In wargame simulations, AI chatbots often choose violence guirong hao/Getty Images In multiple replays of a wargame simulation, OpenAI’s most…
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Patch with octopus-like suckers helps drugs penetrate the skin
An adhesive patch to deliver drugs through the skin mimics octopus tentacles Jihyun Lee et al., ACS Nano journal 2024…
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