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Competition opens to find the world's most perplexing c...

Software developers entering the International Obfuscated C Code Contest must wr...

Using common painkiller in pregnancy might raise ADHD r...

Children may have a higher risk of developing ADHD if their mothers used paracet...

Quail-sized feathered dinosaur may be the earliest know...

Archaeopteryx, long considered the earliest fossil bird, could be knocked off it...

How big is a neutrino? We're finally starting to get an...

Our estimates of the size of a neutrino span from smaller than an atomic nucleus...

How a moth uses an optical illusion to disguise itself ...

The smooth wings of fruit-sucking moths appear to be ridged like a leaf – but th...

Record-breaking neutrino spotted tearing through the Me...

A neutrino with more energy than we've ever seen before was picked up by a detec...

Strongest evidence yet that Ozempic and Wegovy reduce a...

The drug semaglutide has been linked to a lower risk of alcoholism before, but n...

Dancing turtles help us understand how they navigate ar...

Some turtles "dance" when they anticipate food, which gives us clues as to how t...

'Sexome' microbes swapped during sex could aid forensic...

Forensic scientists investigating cases of sexual assault may be able to use the...

Waste surveillance at just 20 airports could spot the n...

A waste-water surveillance network of just 20 international airports could quick...

Older people in England are more satisfied after covid-...

Surveys before, early on in and towards the end of the covid-19 pandemic suggest...

Maybe NASA’s SLS should be cancelled – but not by Elon ...

Critics have been calling for NASA to cancel its extremely pricey Space Launch S...

How the megaquop machine could usher in a new era of qu...

John Preskill has been guiding the growing quantum computing industry for decade...

Fossil proteins may soon reveal how we're related to Au...

Australopithecus came before us, but that doesn't tell us which specific individ...

Why quantum computers are being held back by geopolitic...

Fears that other nations could gain an advantage are holding back the developmen...

Cybersecurity experts fear Elon Musk's DOGE may enable ...

The US National Institute of Standards and Technology, which is tasked with deve...

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