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Blood test could tell if a fever is due to infection or other diseases

Analysis of gene activity in a blood sample can help determine if a fever is caused by bacterial infection, a virus or an inflammatory disease

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Technology

AI chatbots become more sycophantic as they get more advanced

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Life

Do honeyguides really help honey badgers find bees’ nests?

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Eye-Shield: Real-Time Protection of Mobile Device Screen Information from Shoulder Surfing https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.03868

Technology

Making your phone screen blurry could stop people snooping on you

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An artist impression of HD 45166, an unusually magnetic star

Space

Astronomers have found a strange new type of extremely magnetic star

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Environment

Extreme fires caused by ancient humans wiped out Californian megafauna

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Space

All of Neptune’s clouds have vanished – it may be because of the sun

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Artist's impression of a binary black hole system

Space

Black holes may be hurtling around at 10 per cent the speed of light

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2JHH3RR Drosophila Melanogaster male fruit fly on a green leaf

Life

Flies riding on a carousel suggest that insects like to play

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Technology

Driverless cars may struggle to spot children and dark-skinned people

The accuracy of pedestrian-detecting AI systems may be biased against some groups of people, fuelling calls for more transparency and tighter regulations

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Environment

Wildfires made worse by plants starting to grow earlier in the year

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Mind

Negative emotions really do make events seem to last longer

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Technology

Flying bird robot can soar so well it uses almost no power

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Health

Morning-after pill is more effective when taken with anti-inflammatory

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