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Climate change has revealed a huge haul of ancient arrows in Norway

25 November 2020

An extraordinary number of arrows dating from the Stone Age to the medieval period have melted out of a single ice patch on a Norwegian mountainside in recent years because of climate change


Emotion-detecting AIs are here – do they work and how should we feel?

Emotion-detecting AIs are here – do they work and how should we feel?

18 November 2020

Several companies have built AIs designed to figure our when you are angry or sad or excited. But there are serious questions about their accuracy, and the extent to which they should be used in public life


E.coli bacteria

Silver uses a surprising trick to stop the spread of bacteria

3 March 2020

Silver has an antibacterial effect by stopping the motors that bacteria use to move around from working properly and making them move more slowly


Cretaceous insect discovered with extremely weird antennae

Cretaceous insect discovered with extremely weird antennae

19 February 2020

Amber from the Cretaceous period trapped a leaf-footed bug with extremely long and wide antennae, which may have helped disguise the insect or confuse predators


Benedict Cumberbatch

Ironbark: Did two spies really prevent all-out nuclear war?

29 January 2020

Ironbark is one of 2020’s anticipated movies. Benedict Cumberbatch plays the MI6 handler of a Russian spy who may have helped prevent nuclear war


IceCube facility

Strange particles found in Antarctica cannot be explained by physics

14 January 2020

A NASA science balloon picked up two high-energy particles and a new analysis reveals that they can't be explained by the standard model of particle physics


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Encryption scheme lets police access your phone, but there's a catch

20 December 2019

The row over law enforcement access to encrypted devices won't go away – now two researchers say they may have a middle-ground solution


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An AI doctor is analysing heart scans in dozens of hospitals

22 November 2019

Doctors are using artificial intelligence in dozens of hospitals to help them make sense of MRI images of the heart


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Stalkerware: The secret apps people use to spy on their partners

19 November 2019

Apps that secretly give people access to their partners' smartphones are growing in prominence, but is the threat being taken seriously?


Graffiti

Graffiti on bus shelters saves birds from fatal collisions

24 October 2019

A study of bus shelters in Poland has found that glass screens can be fatal to birds, but graffiti or dirt prevents collisions


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