Puppy intelligence tests can predict how dogs will turn out as adults
In the ‘unsolvable task’, puppies are shown a reward they can’t access. Those that look to humans for help tend
Methane-eating bacteria are ready to capture landfill emissions
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Smell-seeking drone uses moth antenna to follow a scent
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AI data scrapers are an existential threat to Wikipedia
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The epic quest to redefine the second using the world’s best clocks
On a large table draped with hundreds of cables, a maze of mirrors and lenses bounces and guides a thin
Are Trump’s cuts to science the end of the endless frontier?
US President Donald Trump’s executive orders have led to drastic cuts across the sciences SHAWN THEW/POOL/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock In a letter to
Flourishing microalgae could offset emissions as the planet heats up
Peatlands such as Männikjärve bog in Estonia are important carbon sinks Vincent Jassey Microbes in carbon-rich soils ramp up their
How a surprising twist on rewilding could help settle our carbon debt
In the Țarcu mountains of Romania, a pioneering experiment is changing the atmosphere around rewilding. Starting in 2014, around 100
NASA has made the first radio telescope observations on the moon
The Odysseus spacecraft as it approached the moon Intuitive Machines The first successful use of a radio telescope on the
Dust devils on Mars produce lightning-like zaps of electricity
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