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It has been 50 years since archaeologists discovered Lucy, perhaps the most famous ancient hominin ever found. But the ...

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Letting AI models communicate with each other in their internal mathematical language, rather than translating back and forth ...

Attempts to prevent Australian children from accessing social media are likely to fail, and could do more harm than good ...

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A genetic flaw dooms half of all crested newts to die before they hatch – now we know how this baffling evolutionary quirk ...

Two massive galaxies are bending light from the same distant quasar, creating a so-called Einstein zigzag lens that could ...

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