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It is thought that humans can only maintain relationships with around 150 people, a figure known as Dunbar's number, but it ...
Gears just a few micrometres wide can be carved from silicon using a beam of electrons, enabling tiny robots or machines that ...
The 2024 Nobel prize in physics has gone to John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton for discoveries that enabled machine learning ...
A mathematical proof shows that some quantum states can resist nature’s tendency to disorder – but only under very specific ...
Discoveries from the genomes of the last Neanderthals are rewriting the story of how our own species came to replace them ...
Key climate indicators from greenhouse gas levels to ice loss have reached record levels this year in what researchers call a “critical and unpredictable new phase of the climate crisis” ...