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How better ways of screening drugs could soon lead to thousands fewer animal tests

Scientists can now get more accurate safety data by testing drugs on organ-on-a-chip devices and organoids, meaning that…

Roman roads weren’t so straight after all

Detailed data on the Roman Empire’s entire road network is offering fresh insight into how Romans built their…

Ash from Mount Etna grounds flights at Sicily airport

All flights are suspended from one of Italy's busiest airports until Tuesday night.

How big are factorials?

The article explains how to estimate the number of digits in factorials using the formula: number of digits in n!

This Atlantic hurricane season is about to do something that hasn't happened in 175 years

But there may be a price to pay for a quiet Atlantic hurricane season.

LSD could be approved for anxiety in the US in 2027

The psychedelic drug LSD eased anxiety in a late-stage trial, paving the way for a probable approval in the US within…

A new biography of Stephen Hawking gets to grips with a complicated man

Graham Farmelo has written the first authorised biography of the famous physicist.

How I made a slime mould the protagonist of my new sci-fi novel

How do you get the science right in a sci-fi book?

The k-server conjecture is true

Researchers have proven the k-server conjecture, a long-standing problem in computer science, by demonstrating that the…

One of the fundamental forces is stronger than we thought

The most precise calculation yet of the electroweak force could help fix cracks in the standard model of particle…

Mass nesting brings swarms of turtles to Mexican beach

Thousands of turtles arrived at La Escobilla beach in Oaxaca within 48 hours, sanctuary officials said.

Reading for pleasure boosts memory, empathy and mental health

Fewer people are reading for pleasure, but getting lost in a good book has repeatedly been linked to substantial…

A Beginning for Mathematics

# Summary AI systems have rapidly advanced from being unable to reliably add numbers three years ago to autonomously…

A new solar cell could generate electricity underwater

The trick isn't using perovskites—the trick is making them last.

Backprop Alternative: Augmented Lagrangian Predictive Coding

Researchers introduced PC-ALM (Augmented Lagrangian Predictive Coding), a biologically plausible alternative to…

Prehistoric builders transported Devil's Arrows 11 miles

Isotropic analysis revealed the most likely source to be Brimham Rocks, not the nearby Plumpton Rocks.

Brain implant lets people with paralysis speak and gesture at the same time

Previous brain implants have enabled people with paralysis to either speak or move, but a new, larger one enabled them…

"Offensively cheap": Solar power is looking up

Chinese-made panels on rooftops across the world are changing the facts of life for big utilities.

Show HN: Fly.exe – An EON systems like virtual fruit fly uploaded to computer

Fly.exe is a Drosophila brain simulator that runs a complete male fruit fly connectome containing 165,122 neurons and 25.

Flash flooding interrupts half-marathon, submerges cars

Parts of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut were hit by flash flooding, leading to water rescues, stranded motorists…

We’ve long thought that time has only one dimension. What if we’re wrong?

A second dimension of time has long seemed wholly incompatible with reality.

A rough guide for going back to the Moon

IBM and NASA have open-sourced the NASA-IBM Lunar Foundation Model, an AI system that integrates decades of lunar data…

Scientists call for ‘emergency’ measures to save sea life from El Niño

Reducing fishing quotas, rescuing endangered species from the water and testing geoengineering could help soften ocean…

Wild dogs record 2,500-mile trek across Africa in search of a mate

Scientists say the record-breaking journey by three brothers offers hope wildlife can survive growing pressures.

Two bizarre new forms of ice discovered that could exist deep inside planets

Crushing water to pressures in the millions of atmospheres has revealed two strange types of ice, which may form deep…

People Who Can't Picture Anything Are Rewriting the Science of Imagination

Largest known Roman mosaic, beneath Baths of Trajan, opens to the public

The largest Roman mosaic ever discovered, found beneath Rome's Baths of Trajan during 1990s excavations, has opened to…

Unsolved Problem by Fields Medalist Breached by Two High School Students

Two high school students, Aayush Bathija and Prince Rohatgi, solved an open problem in Lorentzian polynomial theory—a…

'Offensively cheap': solar power is looking up