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It turns out you can’t ensure cyber-security in the world’s fifth-largest employer if there’s no one in charge of making it happen.
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The science of red skies can also help us understand how stars form.
Dota 2 championship.
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AI just beat a top human professional in the game Dota 2, but the technology could help with much bigger strategic problems.
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Reconstructing the colours of the feathered Sinosauropteryx gives hints about its habitat and lifestyle.
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Simulations in a special chamber suggest how the Mars landscape could have been shaped under certain conditions.
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An obscure technology from the past has the potential to change the world’s future.
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Hawking proved that the Big Bang was physically possible.
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A new method has been developed to find objects that land at sea using underwater sounds.
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New research tries to suggest mothers’ responses are pre-programmed, but there’s a problem with the evidence.
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Thanks to innovative technology, the third Forth bridge continues a proud legacy of state-of-the-art bridge engineering across three centuries.
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Treating video like a mutating gene could improve surveillance software.
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It can be easy to tell how dogs are feeling but new evidence suggests they’re also trying to communicate.
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Some philosophers believe space is a giant container, while others think it’s all in our heads.
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New research shows bees see a blue halo around flowers thanks to nanostructures on its petals.
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With this technology, citizen scientists could even help to predict the damage caused by future disasters.
Visitors look at digital light effects by Japan based digital art group teamLab during a Taiwan art exhibition in February 2017.
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How culture can inform technological innovations.
A pod of spinner dolphins in the Red Sea.
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Complex behaviour such as regional accents and cultural food preferences in whales and dolphins seems to be linked to brain size.
Gravitational lensing (arcs and streaks in the picture) in the galaxy cluster Abell 370.
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Galaxies evolve in mysterious way. But a new study offers a fresh approach to understand them.
What are you staring at?
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The animals can see you as a threat, so make them feel at home.
Artist’s illustration of two merging neutron stars.
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The discovery of tiny ripples in space from the violent collision of dense stars could help solve many mysteries – including where the gold in our jewellery comes from.
They call me the digital lizard.
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The automation wave is coming for computer programmers – up to a point.
Off to court…
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Future Mars colonists may want to form their own legal system. What would stop them?
Images of the lost Beagle 2.
Beagle 2 shows the fine line between success and failure in Mars exploration. There’s a lot we can learn from it going forward.
Exhausting.
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Time’s up for the internal combustion engine.
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We’re told VR will let distant audiences experience live shows from the comfort of their living room – but what if no one goes anymore?