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Category: Science
UK gene-edited food plans must not harm animal welfare,...
Gene-edited foods may one day be sold in UK shops, but ethicists warn that using the technology in livestock may exacerbate animal...
How to hack your stress and turn it into a positive for...
Too much stress hurts mind and body, but the stress response exists for good evolutionary reasons. Recognising that is the first s...
Stones smashed by horses can be mistaken for ancient hu...
Horses kick and stamp on rocks to keep their hooves in good shape, and archaeologists have now realised this can result in a colle...
UK refuses to release document showing Net Zero Strateg...
The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy has refused a freedom of information request that would allow independ...
Algorithms
Originally a way of solving complicated equations with moving variables, the modern definition of an algorithm is morphing
Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī
Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī was a Persian polymath, sometimes known as the father of algebra, who produced ground-breaking work...
DeepMind AI collaborates with humans on two mathematica...
Humans and AI working together can reveal new areas of mathematics where data sets are too large to be comprehended by mathematici...
Fossil footprints hint at mystery hominin with unusual ...
A set of 3.7-million-year-old footprints were initially thought to have been left by a bear walking upright, but have now been rei...
New species of armoured dinosaur had a tail shaped like...
Stegouros elengassen, unearthed in Chile, had a strange flattened tail that looked like a fern frond – a feature never seen before...
Heirloom tomatoes are less genetically diverse than sta...
A study of traditional ‘heirloom’ tomato varieties from Europe has revealed little genetic diversity despite their enormous variet...
Covid-19 news: More cases of omicron found in the UK
The latest coronavirus news updated every day including coronavirus cases, the latest news, features and interviews from New Scien...
A single vaccine could protect against many mosquito-bo...
A vaccine that changes the way our body responds to mosquito bites could protect us from diseases the insects carry, and also seem...