Science
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How could Ukraine stop Russia’s new Oreshnik missile?
A different missile to Oreshnik, the Yars intercontinental ballistic missile, is test-fired from the Plesetsk launch pad in north-western Russia…
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Banning scary-sounding ideas can comfort but does more harm than good
Yuichiro Chino/Getty Images In 1818, Mary Shelley invented a technology that has been used for both good and ill in…
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Robot balloons are snapping centimetre-resolution photos of the US
The payload of a Near Space Labs balloon parachuting back to the ground Near Space Labs Autonomous balloons high in…
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Ocean acidification is reaching deeper waters
Deep-sea coral reefs are at risk from acidification Howard Chew / Alamy Stock Photo Ocean acidification is sinking into marine…
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Bird flu may be adapting to become more infectious to humans
Bird flu has been spreading in wild animals for years but it is now adapting to humans Vuk Valcic//SOPA Images/LightRocket…
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We may be about to solve the greatest riddle of electromagnetism
Most of us don’t think much about electric charge, apart from in those annoying moments when our phones run out…
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Fossilised droppings tell the story of dinosaurs’ rise to power
Sauropodomorph dinosaurs feeding on newly evolved plants in a wet early Jurassic environment Marcin Ambrozik The contents of 200-million-year-old faeces…
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Record-breaking diamond storage can save data for millions of years
Diamonds can store data stably for long periods of time University of Science and Technology of China The famous marketing…
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Orcas have begun wearing salmon hats again – and we may soon know why
An orca carrying a salmon in its mouth in south-east Alaska Minden Pictures/Alamy Some of the orcas off North America’s…
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Changing a single number among billions can destroy an AI model
The output of AIs is controlled by the interactions of huge networks of nodes or weights shulz/Getty Images An artificial…
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