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Measurements of a blast of radio waves passing through our galaxy have shown that the Milky Way's proportion of visible matter is 40 per cent lower than the rest of the universe

The new ShadowCam instrument has sent its first image back from lunar orbit, showing the inside of an area of the moon that never gets any direct sunlight

Ten years ago, we feared that catastrophic global warming of between 4°C and 5°C by by 2100 was a real risk. Today, that is no longer credible, says Graham Lawton

Anthropomorphising animals such as chimps, dolphins and bees will stifle scientific enquiry instead of encouraging it, says evolutionary biologist Marlene Zuk

A massive iceberg that has been stuck on the seafloor in front of the Thwaites glacier in West Antarctica for two decades and helped protect it is now floating away

Western fence lizards that experience wildlife learn that fire is a major threat, becoming more alert to the sounds of a blaze than to those of avian predators

The nanomachine is based on a 3catenane and isn’t operated through a microscope tip, unlike others

The French biotech company Ÿnsect plans to open 15 mealworm factories by 2030. We looked inside their pilot plant to see what the future of food might look like

US authorities are reportedly considering a ban on new gas stoves in light of research claiming they are linked to one in eight cases of childhood asthma

Oldest part of Oxford’s Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory is too antiquated to bring up to modern standards

Circadian clock genes in almost all our cells follow regular 24-hour patterns, but can be disrupted by irregular sleep patterns and prolonged light exposure. Now these same disruptions have been found in the cells of cancerous pancreatic tissue

Silt overload and mercury pollution endanger river ecosystems—and the people who depend on them

One piece of evidence for weird sterile neutrinos evaporates

Via the New York Times, this remarkable story of a World War II forger: 

An analysis of nearly 5.5 million scientific papers has found that, on current trends, the proportion of women authoring research won't reach parity with men in some fields for over 100 years

Using science for diplomatic purposes

Ball milling method avoids problems surrounding solution-based chemistry when synthesising arylmanganese nucleophiles

If you feed ChatGPT, the AI language model, an appropriate prompt followed by a sample of writing, it does something that could be rather useful. The bot analyses the writing style. The prompt needs to be something like this: “Analyze the text below for style, voice, and tone. Then, using natural language processing (NLP) create … Continue reading "Setting the tone artificially"

Long-awaited lab experiments could help researchers find hidden signs of life

Lar gibbons call out sounds that are synchronised and occur at regular intervals, musical qualities only previously seen in lemurs and humans

The developers list an annual price of $26,500 per patient