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A new chip design includes 41 vertical layers of semiconductor and insulator materials, which allow it to outrun the limits ...

If users chose the most efficient model each time they performed a task with AI, researchers calculate it would slash energy ...

US astronaut, doctor and engineer Mae Jemison became the first Black woman to go into space in 1992. She was one of seven ...

The evidence to support phone bans in schools has been inconclusive, and now it seems that the move could harm some students' ...

Economists, bankers and even the boss of OpenAI are warning of a rapidly inflating AI bubble. If and when it bursts, what ...

Scientists are designing mRNA vaccines to produce virus-like nanoparticles, which should lead to a more robust immune ...

Lead poisoning isn't just a modern phenomenon: fossil teeth show signs that it affected ancient hominids, and Homo sapiens ...

A whole library’s worth of papyri owned by Julius Caesar’s father-in-law were turned to charcoal by the eruption of Vesuvius.

A 230-million-year-old fossil found in Argentina shows that the evolution of sauropod dinosaurs’ long necks began earlier ...

The global average concentration of CO2 surged by 3.5 parts per million to reach 423.9 ppm last year, fuelling worries that ...