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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.
Demands associated with automation can create more work for humans.
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Automation may not reduce our workloads as much as we’d hoped.
There are many pieces of evidence to help explain why the Earth spins, and some major mysteries.
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An astronomer takes us on a tour of the universe to learn about the birth of stars and planets and how they get their spin.
It wasn’t flying that gave birds the advantage.
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Birds and dinosaurs lived together for millions of years, but only toothless birds survived the asteroid impact that upended life on Earth.
Virgin Orbit is launching satellites using a rocket slung under the wing of an aircraft.
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Efforts to launch rockets into space from the UK need to demonstrate reliability.
Don’t believe the hype about Bigfoot, a flat Earth or ancient aliens.
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A university course teaches students why people believe false and evidence-starved claims, to show them how to determine what’s accurate and real and what’s neither.
The giant bird Genyornis went extinct in Australia around 50,000 years ago.
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A puzzle over the identity of an extinct bird that laid eggs across Australia has been solved.
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How Prince Harry using a psychic to contact his dead mother, Princess Diana, isn’t that unusual.
In 2022, Chinese researchers published more scientific papers on artificial intelligence than any other nation.
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In 2014, Chinese researchers published more papers than any other country for the first time. In 2019, China overtook the U.S. as the No. 1 publisher of the most influential papers.
Your zodiac sign – like Sagittarius, the archer – might be in the stars, but your future isn’t.
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Astrology and astronomy were once practiced side by side by scientists like Galileo and Kepler. And they’re more similar than you might think.
NIF’s target chamber, where a powerful laser is used to start nuclear fusion reactions.
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A US national lab has proved we can the fusion process can be used to produce energy, but it’s just the first step in a very long process.
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Using poetry to explore climate change can empower and inspire people to act and make a difference.
Animal research’s benefits are clear – but public awareness of what it involves is not.
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Guidelines and regulations weigh the medical and health benefits of animal research with researchers’ ability to ensure humane care of their subjects from start to finish.