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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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Machine-inspired art can seem like a relatively recent phenomena, spurred on by the rise of artificial intelligence, yet a ...

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

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

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

Russia’s new ballistic missile flies on a high arc out of Earth’s atmosphere and releases multiple high-speed projectiles, ...

The long history of robotics should teach us to be more sceptical when it comes to autonomous humanoid robots, says Nicole ...