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Bacteria that are mirror images of existing ones could evade our immune systems, causing serious illness.
Many of those surveyed preferred AI poetry generated in the style of poets like Shakespeare to the real thing.
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But here’s why poets shouldn’t worry, yet.
Self-experimentation went very badly for Jeff Goldblum’s character in The Fly.
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A least eight early self-experimenters died from their research.
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Donald Trump’s divisive rhetoric and a bad joke from one of this surrogates may have finally gone too far.
Nature loss should be treated with the same urgency as climate change.
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Nature loss is as critical to national economies as climate change.
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The second world war forced eugenicists to retreat to the fringes of science - but still found ways to publish in journals.
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The co-lead of the world’s largest ever genetic study into ME calls for a radical change in how society deals with the disease.
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Over the past two decades, the west has begun to present these extrajudicial killings as ‘justice’ with scant regard for international law.
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This month, they spotted just the ninth asteroid to be detected before impact with Earth.
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The recovery continues from the faulty software update applied to Microsoft operating systems.
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“New world” wines are much more likely to be associated with entrepreneurial growers and terraces of bulging fruit than all the black and indigenous slaves who helped enable them.
Outgoing Nato secretary general, Jens Stoltenberg.
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The 75th anniversary summit has three main areas of focus: Ukraine, defence, and global partnerships.
Art showing the interior of a tokamak - a doughnut-shaped fusion “reactor”.
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Some processes that support fusion energy fuel climate change and may harm the environment.
Visualisation of the Shackleton crater at the Moon’s south pole.
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China wants to build a lunar base with international partners, just as the US does.
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A breakthrough drug is a significant step forward in the fight against HIV. But without changes in behaviour, infection rates won’t come down.
Putin visited China in May 2024.
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Russia has run out of friends and bargaining power.
Bolivian president Luis Arce (left) and vice president David Choquehuanca greet supporters gathered at Plaza Murillo in La Paz, Bolivia, after order had been restored.
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As the dust settles on the attempted coup in Bolivia, people are pointing the finger at the country’s president.
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Why we shouldn’t let the actions of a few taint the reputations of an entire political class.
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Not for the first time the US government has harmed public health in developing countries with covert ops.
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AstraZeneca withdrawing it COVID vaccine from the market has nothing to do with blood clots.