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We used DNA from Beethoven’s hair to shed light on his poor health – and stumbled upon a family secret
Kevin Brown, Author provided Robert Attenborough, Australian National University Many astonishingly creative people have lived lives cut tragically…
Milestone developments at four years old help children tell lies, play hide-and-seek and read maps
ANURAK PONGPATIMET/Shutterstock Martin Doherty, University of East Anglia At the age of about four, children reach important milestones…
What exactly is the internet? A computer scientist explains what it is and how it came to be
The internet is used for a lot more than just surfing the web. Jonathan Kirn/The Image Bank via…
Smell is the crucial sense that holds ant society together, helping the insects recognize, communicate and cooperate with one another
Ants from different colonies will fight based on smell alone. Joseph Howell, Vanderbilt University, CC BY-ND Laurence Zwiebel,…
Body language books get it wrong: the truth about reading nonverbal cues
Defensive, uncertain, confident, confrontational: can your body language reveal what you’re thinking? Pexels/Jopwell Geoff Beattie, Edge Hill University…
AI information retrieval: A search engine researcher explains the promise and peril of letting ChatGPT and its cousins search the web for you
Large language model AI responds to questions but doesn’t actually know anything and is prone to making things…
What are auroras, and why do they come in different shapes and colours? Two experts explain
Lightscape / Unsplash Brett Carter, RMIT University and Elizabeth A. MacDonald, NASA Over millennia, humans have observed and…
Tyrannosaurus rex: our new research shows it covered its enormous teeth with lips
Mark Witton, Author provided Mark P. Witton, University of Portsmouth Picture a Tyrannosaurus rex, that ferocious yet one…
We’ve been connecting brains to computers longer than you’d expect. These 3 companies are leading the way
Shutterstock Sam John, The University of Melbourne Since it was founded in 2016, Elon Musk’s brain-computer interface (BCI)…
The end of thermal cars: why electric vehicles aren’t a silver bullet
By the end of the year, electric cars are expected to account for 13% of global light vehicle…