Science
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Extreme heat is now making cities unlivable. How can we survive it?
Humidity makes Shanghai’s heat more unbearable lukyeee1976/Getty Images “My office felt like a steamer on Monday morning,” wrote Chinese influencer…
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Google DeepMind AI can expertly fix errors in quantum computers
Quantum bits, or qubits, can be thought of as representing data on a sphere Google DeepMind Google DeepMind has developed…
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IBM entangled two quantum chips to work together for the first time
An artist’s impression of IBM’s Eagle quantum processing unit IBM IBM has made a significant advance on the road to…
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Robotic pigeon reveals how birds fly without a vertical tail fin
A pigeon-inspired robot has solved the mystery of how birds fly without the vertical tail fins that human-designed aircraft rely…
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Planet 10 times the size of Earth is one of the youngest ever found
An artist’s depiction of a system showing its host star, transiting planet and misaligned protoplanetary disc NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. Hurt, K. Miller…
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Mayors are the leaders we need to help fight climate change
It hasn’t been a good year for people who care about climate change. A hoped-for peak in carbon emissions has…
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AI simulations of 1000 real people using GPT-4o accurately replicate their behaviour
Can AI replicate individual humans? gremlin/Getty Images An experiment simulating more than 1000 real people using the artificial intelligence model…
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Are calories on menus doing more harm than good?
Calories on menus mean we can no longer pretend that fast food is slimming David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images…
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See the sun revealed in stunning glory by Solar Orbiter pictures
The sun’s upper atmosphere, or corona, in ultraviolet light ESA & NASA/Solar Orbiter/EUI Team These fiery images are the clearest…
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Being in space makes it harder for astronauts to think quickly
There is a lot to keep track of when working in space NASA via Getty Image Astronauts aboard the International…
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