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In 2018, Tom Finn took his father, Nigel, to a physiotherapy appointment. Nigel was living with vascular dementia, which can…

December 9, 20243 min readWhat Are the Mystery Drones Reported over New York State and New Jersey?Reports of unidentified flying…

The prototype of an IBM optics module for connecting chips with fibre opticsRyan Lavine for IBM An optical fibre technology…

There is significant disagreement over whether to create a dedicated plastics fund, paid into by developed donor countries, or use…

December 6, 20243 min readWhy ‘Tipping Points’ Are the Wrong Way to Talk about Climate ChangeA new paper warns the…

AI found a new way to entangle particles of lightluchschenF/Shutterstock Quantum entanglement just got easier, thanks to artificial intelligence. Researchers…

Michaelsen thought he had won. But when the TCEQ commissioners took up the question several months later, again they rejected…

December 6, 20243 min readWuhan Virologist Says Lab Has No Close Relatives to COVID VirusShi Zhengli, the virologist at the center of…

A destructive storm in Spain in 2022 produced large hailstones up to 12 centimetres in diameterTomeu Rigo Ribas A scanner…

In 2025, we might detect the first signs of life outside our solar system.Crucial to this potential breakthrough is the…

December 3, 20244 min readWho Is Jared Isaacman, President-Elect Trump’s Pick to Lead NASA?NASA’s presumptive next leader, billionaire private astronaut…

This brain implant contains tens of thousands of lab-engineered neuronsScience Corporation An experimental brain implant containing tens of thousands of…

On November 22, the United States Department of Agriculture temporarily halted the import of cattle from Mexico after a flesh-eating…

December 3, 20242 min readWhy ‘Brain Rot’ Is 2024’s Word of the YearThe phrase “brain rot” spiked 230 percent from…

People carrying out disinfection work at a market in Wuhan, where covid-19 is thought to have originated, in March 2020An…

Amid all of these concerns, the city has been turning to drones to monitor pollution hotspots, in addition to those…