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Environment

Test of AI weather forecasts shows they miss extreme storms

Weather forecasts based on AI are faster and sometimes more accurate than traditional ones, but they may miss rare and unprecedented weather events – which are becoming more common as the climate changes

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Humans

Medieval woman was executed and displayed on London riverbank

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Humans

Humans were crafting tools from whale bones 20,000 years ago

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Space

Was Planet Nine exiled from the solar system as a baby?

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Space

The sun is killing off SpaceX’s Starlink satellites

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Health

How fast you age is dictated by your sex, ethnicity and education

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Health

Cord blood banking is not living up to its promise

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Earth

How captured carbon dioxide could help mine carbon-negative nickel

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Space

Physicists are waging a cosmic battle over the nature of dark energy

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Physics

A photon caught in two places at once could destroy the multiverse

The idea of a multiverse of universes is derived from a particular interpretation of quantum mechanics, but now a new twist on a classic experiment says it is time to put the idea to bed

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Technology

Trump’s Golden Dome defence project could spur a space arms race

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Technology

Breaking encryption with a quantum computer just got 20 times easier

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Health

Are microplastics in ultra-processed food harming your mental health?

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Life

Why birds decorate their nests with weird and unnatural objects

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