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Electric vehicles are suddenly hot − but the industry has traveled a long road to relevance
Everything old is new again. Simon Skafar/E+/Getty Images Hovig Tchalian, University of Southern California In 2023, more than…
We designed wormlike, limbless robots that navigate obstacle courses − they could be used for search and rescue one day
Limbless robots may not need lots of complex algorithms when they have mechanical intelligence. Tianyu Wang Tianyu Wang,…
Stone Age ‘megastructure’ under Baltic Sea sheds light on strategy used by Palaeolithic hunters over 10,000 years ago
Artist’s impression of the Blinkerwall: the ancient stone wall used as a hunting structure. Michał Grabowski, Author provided…
Bringing AI up to speed – autonomous auto racing promises safer driverless cars on the road
An autonomous race car built by the Technical University of Munich prepares to pass the University of Virginia’s…
Several companies are testing brain implants – why is there so much attention swirling around Neuralink? Two professors unpack the ethical issues
Brain-computer interfaces have the potential to transform some people’s lives, but they raise a host of ethical issues,…
King Charles is having cancer treatment. What can he, and others with cancer, expect?
Sathana Dushyanthen, The University of Melbourne King Charles’ cancer diagnosis, which was identified recently during treatment for an…
‘Jaws’ portrayed sharks as monsters 50 years ago, but it also inspired a generation of shark scientists
A paleontologist wears a T-shirt showing Strophodus rebecae, a shark species with flat teeth that lived millions of…
A 365-million-year-old fish with an extreme underbite showcases vertebrate diversity
Artist reconstruction of Alienacanthus malkowskii, a 365-million-year-old placoderm fish from Poland and Morocco. (Beat Scheffold & Christian Klug),…
Got period pain or cramps? What to eat and avoid, according to science
Sora Shimazaki/Pexels Lauren Ball, The University of Queensland; Emily Burch, Southern Cross University, and Pui Ting Wong, The…
Early humans reached northwest Europe 45,000 years ago, new research shows
View of the new excavations in front of what is currently left of the Ilsenhoehle under the Ranis…