People prefer AI-generated poems to Shakespeare and Dickinson
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To truly understand non-human grief, we need to think like the animals
[ad_1] Evidence that animals mourn the death of loved ones is growing, but we should be wary of letting our biases cloud this topic, says
Power Metal review: The dilemma of mining more metals so we can ditch fossil fuels
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Starship launch 6: When is the next SpaceX flight test and what can we expect?
[ad_1] SpaceX says on its website that it aims to conduct the sixth test flight of Starship as early as 18 November SpaceX SpaceX is
Watch autonomous cars do doughnuts and drift sideways round corners
[ad_1] Driverless cars can now do doughnuts and drift like stunt drivers, skidding sideways around corners while maintaining control, which might help the cars recover
World’s largest coral is 300 years old and was discovered by accident
[ad_1] Measuring the massive coral Inigo San Felix/National Geographic Society In the south-west Pacific, off the coast of one of the tropical Solomon Islands, a
Exquisite bird fossil provides clues to the evolution of avian brains
[ad_1] The skeleton of Navaornis hestiae, an 80-million-year-old bird fossil S. Abramowicz/Dinosaur Institute/Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County An 80-million-year-old fossil bird has been
We must use genetic technologies now to avert the coming food crisis
[ad_1] There are two monumental problems with the world’s food system. Firstly, hundreds of millions of people can’t afford to buy enough nutritious food to
12,000-year-old stones may be oldest example of wheel-like tools
[ad_1] A perforated pebble from the Nahal Ein Gev II archaeological site, which may be an ancient spindle whorl Laurent Davin A set of 12,000-year-old
Mounting evidence points to air pollution as a cause of eczema
[ad_1] Air pollution is hard to avoid, particularly for city dwellers Ron Adar/Alamy Air pollution is increasingly being linked to a raised risk of eczema,