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Matthew Sparkes

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Fire is spreading in the Chernobyl exclusion zone after drone crash

A forest fire is burning in the exclusion zone around the Chernobyl…

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NHS England rushes to hide software over AI hacking fears

Software produced by the National Health Service is usually open to the…

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Humanoid robots may be about to break the 100-metre sprint record

A humanoid robot from Honor crosses the finish line during the 2026…

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How worried should you be about an AI apocalypse?

Isaac Asimov’s three laws of robotics are not a practical guideEntertainment Pictures/Alamy…

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Why the world’s militaries are scrambling to create their own Starlink

An illustration showing some of Starlink’s 10,000 satellitesxnk/Shutterstock Starlink’s satellite constellation provides…

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Why the US is using a cheap Iranian drone against the country itself

The Shahed 136 drone was invented by Iran and then copied by…

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Physicists warn of ‘catastrophic’ impact from UK science cuts

The Large Hadron Collider at CERN could be affected by UK spending…

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Dutch air force reads pilots’ brainwaves to make training harder

Royal Netherlands Air Force pilots tested brain-reading technology in a simulatorAlireza Boeini/Alamy…

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All major AI models risk encouraging dangerous science experiments

Scientific laboratories can be dangerous placesPeopleImages/Shutterstock The use of AI models in…

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More than 100 moons were discovered in our own solar system in 2025

Uranus’s new moon, S/2025 U1, was spotted using the James Webb Space…

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