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A new, extensive database of language grammars from around the world indicates an alarming trend of global language loss.
Researchers looked at the skeletal remains of 40 people, and found evidence of dairy consumption across a wide swathe of early Tibetan society.
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We all have a stake in life extension research, since we all age and are all slated to die. But one of the greatest risks it brings is the potential for social stagnation.
Eventually weather, pests and disease will take their toll, but the story doesn’t end there.
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Even in death, a tree helps others live.
New research finds societies are much more likely to have supernatural beliefs that concern ‘natural’ phenomena, such as extreme weather events.
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For the first time, researchers have shown plants making sounds that can be heard up to a few metres away – just not by human ears.
Evaluating what citizen science is involves looking at the concept of science itself.
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Citizen science offers the possibility of a science for the people, by the people. And it could be used to challenge the status quo.
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Neuralink might get all the press – but these unsung heroes are pioneering brain-computer interface technology.
An etching of a Royal Institution lecture by James Gillray (1802). Davy is on the right, holding the bellows.
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Davy’s famous lectures on the animating power of electricity may have inspired a young Mary Shelley as she came up with the idea for Frankenstein.
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Beethoven was afflicted with health conditions for much of his adult life, and wished for their cause to be discovered and made public.
Bringing scientific research online can help improve collaboration to a degree.
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The European Union’s 10-year Human Brain Project is coming to a close. Whether this controversial 1 billion-euro project achieved its aims is unclear, but its online forum did foster collaboration.
A sentinel droid features in the film Before We Disappear.
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A new film changes its story based on the emotions expressed by the viewer.
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The average person will spend 90,000 hours at work over a lifetime, so you might as well try and enjoy it.
Ants from different colonies will fight based on smell alone.
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Researchers explore what happens when ants can’t properly use smell to detect friend from foe.
There was little time for water from the Earth’s atmosphere to contaminate the meteorite after it fell.
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In 2021, searchers recovered a meteorite that fell over the UK just hours earlier. Scientists have now reconstructed its story.
A honeybee is performing the waggle dance in the center of this photo to communicate the location of a rich nectar source to its nestmates.
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Honeybees possess one of the most complex examples of nonhuman communication. New research suggests that it is learned and culturally passed down from older to younger bees.
Listening to certain songs can trigger some pretty intense memories.
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Music, memories and emotions are all linked and certain songs can act as a direct line to our past.
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AI chatbots can’t take responsibility for what they say, so we shouldn’t trust them.
Paid-for verification can disrupt our expectations about the reliability of profiles on social media.
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Signalling theory tells us lots about the way paid-for verification has disrupted the blue tick system.
Nigeria’s new president must prioritise capacity retention of the country’s scientists.
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Here’s what Nigeria’s new president should do to elevate science in the country.