Our extinct Australopithecus relatives may have had difficult births
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A unicellular organism with no brain is capable of Pavlovian learning
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Rumours of a Firefly reboot abound, but should the Serenity fly again?
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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…
Mystery ‘whippet’ space explosion is the brightest of its kind
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Ancient ‘weirdo’ reptile graduated from 4 legs to 2 in adolescence
Artist’s reconstruction of Sonselasuchus cedrus in its environment, 215 million years agoGabriel…
How an intern helped build the AI that shook the world
AlphaGo’s victory braodcast on TVIm Hun-jung/Yonhap/AP Photo via Getty Images In March…
The moment that kicked off the AI revolution
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Earth is now heating up twice as fast as in previous decades
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The secret of how cats twist in mid-air to land on their feet
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