People share fake news online even when they can tell it's not true

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People share fake news online even when they can tell it's not true

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Robot debates humans about the dangers of artificial intelligence

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We may be closer than we thought to Earth's dangerous tipping points

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We can now settle debates on when ancient people lived using their DNA

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Controversial DNA screening technique used for at least one pregnancy

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The mystery of the mass of the neutrino could soon be solved

We have a refined estimate for the mass of the neutrino, the most abundant massive particle in the Universe: its mass is 500,000 times less than an electron | Continue reading


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An AI doctor is analysing heart scans in dozens of hospitals

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Swarms of golf ball-sized robots could detect leaks in the sewers

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Elon Musk unveils Tesla's 'cybertruck' – an electric pickup truck

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People only support carbon taxes if they trust their government

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Humans across cultures may share the same universal musical grammar

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Suspended animation for emergency medicine: your questions answered

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Huge Earth-like worlds could host reservoirs of water deep underground

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Genetic screening of IVF embryos is unlikely to lead to smarter babies

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Ants trapped for years in old Soviet nuclear bunker became cannibals

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Part of a vital Antarctic glacier has unexpectedly stopped thinning

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Scientists come up with new rule for comparing age of dogs and humans

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Convert your dog's age into human years using this new formula

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Some women feel fetal kicks years after they've given birth

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Wearable artificial kidney works well in first tests in people

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Semen seems to help female fruit flies remember things better

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Palm oil from Colombia is more climate and wildlife friendly

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Human activities could make a third of tropical African plants extinct

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Artificial skin could be used to make video games more realistic

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Hyperpalatable foods are a modern bogeyman. But what even are they?

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Approval of golden rice could finally end vitamin A deficiency deaths

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How The Expanse is still putting humans at the heart of sci-fi

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See Venus and Jupiter next to each other in the sky this week

Two of the brightest planets, Venus and Jupiter, are in conjuction this week, meaning they appear to line up with Earth in the sky. Here's how to spot them | Continue reading


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CERN boss: Big physics may be in a funk, but we need it more than ever

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The Tenth Muse: A story in which the women count

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Testosterone myths: How old ideas of masculinity sell us all short

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The adventures of a geologist: From shipwrecks to mapping the Arctic

Before directing the Oxford Museum of Natural History, Paul Smith mapped remote Greenland and was once left stranded when his ship went down | Continue reading


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Pigeons with broken wings get patched up with dog and sheep bones

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Geneticists are writing the rule book for creating gene-edited babies

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Bitcoin's climate change impact may be much smaller than we thought

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Humans placed in suspended animation for the first time

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Exclusive: Humans placed in suspended animation for the first time

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Why the line between life and death is now more blurred than ever

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When robots are ultra-lifelike will it be murder to switch one off?

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From mushroom shrouds to cyber funerals, a 21st-century guide to death

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Why almost everyone believes in an afterlife – even atheists

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Grand unified game theory can represent all two-player games

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If you don’t notice something within 1.5 seconds, you may never see it

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We’ve found the missing neutron star at the centre of a supernova

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SpaceX’s Starlink satellites are interfering with astronomy again

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70 is the new 65 when it comes to health and life expectancy in the UK

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Stalkerware: The secret apps people use to spy on their partners

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