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CSB also identifies hundreds of serious incidents in past 2.5 years

Including its 130-metre-long legs, the Voltaire wind turbine installation vessel is 336 metres high. It is on its way from China to the North Sea, where it will install huge new turbines at Dogger Bank

Science is key to addressing global health challenges, but if its advances to be implemented then researchers must work hand in glove with the arts, says Danielle Olsen

Stone Age people in Europe appear to have recorded the reproductive habits of animals with markings on cave paintings, hinting at the early origins of writing

If you read the previous two Sciencebase articles, you will note that the first one about our New Year trip to Norfolk was a conventional article in my usual style, descriptive, with a few puns and pops, and a load of bird photos. The next article was a reboot of that same article where I … Continue reading "Will AI help us be more creative?"

I fed the paragraphs from my recent blog post about our new year trip to the Norfolk coast sequentially to the ChatGPT, artificial intelligence system to see what sort of things it would say in response to my words…its responses put a positive spin on everything, even my complaint about the number of dogs! It’s … Continue reading "Artificial conversation"

Researchers have developed artificial tissue that enabled pigs with penis injuries to have an erection and could potentially treat one cause of impotence in humans

As has been our habit for the last few years, we have eschewed the midnight festivities of New Year and escaped to the coast. This time, we straddled the New Year with three nights in a cosy cottage in Wells-next-the-Sea. We enjoyed the local hostelries in the evenings during our trip, but the main focus … Continue reading "New Year in Norfolk 2023"

A chip-sized device can produce very intense light that could help in building tiny X-ray machines and particle accelerators

After failing to find the safety information they needed, two pregnant chemists began a project to review hazards in labs

Victory for striking student employees after 40-day walkout that disrupted teaching and research could have repercussions across academia

Academic, commercial and public sector scientists recognised in annual honours list

In February, an AI from DoNotPay is set to tell a defendant exactly what to say and when during an entire court case. It is likely to be the first ever case defended by an artificial intelligence

Iceland is developing a suite of technologies to help it reach carbon neutrality by 2040 – and its research could help other countries go green too

System could boost the efficiencies of drug discovery campaigns

A device uses quantum effects to create images of objects from light that never touched actually touched them

Making COVID-19 manageable and covering financial losses from climate change could make headlines

New device triples efficiency of previous setups

Numerical simulations suggest weird black hole impostors would be unstable

Univar is in play and is entertaining other takeover offers

Artificial intelligence that analyses the sound of a cough to detect covid-19 had been reported to be 99 per cent accurate, but a comprehensive analysis shows it’s only about 60 per cent accurate