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This incredible image, featuring flashing Starlink satellites and Earth's glowing atmosphere, was captured over the Pacific ...
Most people would find a 1200-metre wall of ice on a mountain peak intimidating. But for decorated ice climber Ines Papert, ...
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With fast heating, sheets of gold can shoot past the theoretical maximum temperature a solid can have before it melts – ...
By analysing videos of penalty kicks, a deep learning model was able to predict whether a shot would go to the goalkeeper’s ...
If ancient humans with brains a third the size of our own buried their dead, as some archaeologists are claiming, then our ...
Google DeepMind and historians created an AI tool called Aeneas that can predict the missing words in Latin inscriptions carved into stone walls and pottery sherds from the ancient Roman Empire.
A 247-million-year-old fossil reptile boasted an enormous crest on its back made from feather-like appendages, long before the appearance of feathered dinosaurs ...
A 13-million-year-old leg bone from an enormous flightless bird carries crocodilian tooth marks, showing South America was ...
Claims that a small-brained hominin called Homo naledi buried its dead raise intriguing questions about ancient minds and why ...