How to see every planet in the solar system at once this week
For a few evenings around 28 February, every planet in the solar system will be visible in the night sky,…
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AI can tell a person’s sex from brain scans with 90 per cent accuracy
The extent to which men's and women's brains differ has been a contentious debate. Now an AI can distinguish between…
Diabetes drug metformin may cut the risk of long covid by 41 per cent
Metformin, which is commonly used to control blood sugar levels in people with type 2 diabetes, was more effective than…
Your short-term memory can be unreliable after just a few seconds
We know that long-term memory is fallible, and now it seems short-term memory can't be relied on either, if you…
We’ve figured out how our brains sort imagination from reality
Two brain regions seem to work together to determine whether we are seeing something real, or merely a product of…
Earth’s upper mantle is revealing the deepest effect of human activity
As the Aral Sea has been drained by irrigation and dried up, the mass loss on the surface has caused…
Lab-grown stem cells could be a ‘breakthrough’ for cancer treatment
Stem cells made in the lab may one day aid cancer treatment by reducing our reliance on donors
Physicists create bizarre quantum Alice rings for the first time
Researchers manipulated thousands of extremely cold atoms to make a ring-like defect that can change the properties of quantum objects…
Why use of AI is a major sticking point in the ongoing writers’ strike
The writers' strike was initially about compensation in an era of streaming services. Now the role of AI has also…
Windows filled with see-through wood layer help hold in heat
A transparent material made from cellulose nanofibres and pockets of gas could replace air in double-glazed windows to improve thermal…