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Medical breakthrough offers hope to people with same stiff person syndrome as Céline Dion | Medical research

Doctors have made a potentially significant breakthrough in the hunt for a treatment for stiff person syndrome, the autoimmune condition which affects the singer...

Ukraine’s new frontier: how space has become critical to balance of the war | Space

For people in the Russian industrial city of Samara on the banks of the Volga, the first they knew of the Ukrainian attack were...

Thunderstruck: what does the future hold for lightning? | Science

In a rock shelter in Kakadu national park in the north of Australia is an image of a being the Bininj people call Namarrkon....

They’re the sopranos of the forest, so what’s silencing the gibbons’ morning chorus? | Primatology

Dawn has broken, and the air is cool and still. It’s at about this time that gibbons usually erupt into song, wa-oo-ing and wa-ing...

Scientists find nine new sponge species in glimpse of Alaska’s deep-sea diversity | Alaska

Scientists have discovered nine new deep-sea sponge species off Alaska, offering new insights into the region’s largely unexplored marine biodiversity.The National Oceanic and Atmospheric...

‘Immature playground boasting’: Mathematicians uneasy at OpenAI’s latest scalp | Mathematics

It was a week that left mathematicians reeling. Hot on the heels of a flurry of cases of artificial intelligence furthering the field, OpenAI...

Indonesian foragers may have sucked on mind-altering nuts 25,000 years ago, research finds | Science

What may be the earliest known evidence for human drug taking has been traced to ancient Indonesian foragers who sucked on mind-altering nuts as...

OpenAI claims to have solved maths problem that stumped humans for decades | Mathematics

OpenAI claims to have solved a major mathematics problem that has stumped humans for nearly a century after spending millions of dollars on the...

‘This is dangerous’: slime moulds and the bitter debate over the nature of intelligence |

Forty years ago, as an undergraduate in Hokkaido, Toshiyuki Nakagaki came upon a lemon-yellow stain in a petri dish. That encounter turned him into...

Milky Way at the dining table: Bath art show celebrates 18th-century brother and sister astronomers | Astronomy

From the garden of their Georgian townhouse in Bath in the late 18th century, a brother and sister made a series of extraordinary astronomical...

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