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China’s chip industry is gaining momentum – it could alter the global economic and security landscape
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China’s chip industry is gaining momentum – it could alter the global economic and security landscape

Dragon Images/Shutterstock China’s national champions for computer chip – or semiconductor – design and manufacturing, HiSilicon and Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC), are making waves in Washington. SMIC was long considered a laggard. Despite being the recipient of billions of dollars from the Chinese government since its founding in 2000, it remained far from the […]
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Your unique smell can provide clues about how healthy you are
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Your unique smell can provide clues about how healthy you are

fizkes/Shutterstock Hundreds of chemicals stream from our bodies into the air every second. These chemicals release into the air easily as they have high vapour pressures, meaning they boil and turn into gases at room temperature. They give clues about who we are, and how healthy we are. Since ancient Greek times, we’ve known that […]
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How a place’s ecology can shape the culture of the people who live there – podcast
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How a place’s ecology can shape the culture of the people who live there – podcast

Chatrawee Wiratgasem via Shutterstock In some cultures, people are frugal while in others they tend to be generous. Some cultures favour meticulous planning while others favour living in the moment. Theories abound about how and why differences like these between cultures emerge and, increasingly, researchers are looking to the environments people live in for answers. […]
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The brain is the most complicated object in the universe. This is the story of scientists’ quest to decode it – and read people’s minds

In the middle of 2023, a study conducted by the HuthLab at the University of Texas sent shockwaves through the realms of neuroscience and technology. For the first time, the thoughts and impressions of people unable to communicate with the outside world were translated into continuous natural language, using a combination of artificial intelligence (AI) […]
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Using AI to monitor the internet for terror content is inescapable – but also fraught with pitfalls
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Using AI to monitor the internet for terror content is inescapable – but also fraught with pitfalls

shutterstock metamorworks/Shutterstock Every minute, millions of social media posts, photos and videos flood the internet. On average, Facebook users share 694,000 stories, X (formerly Twitter) users post 360,000 posts, Snapchat users send 2.7 million snaps and YouTube users upload more than 500 hours of video. This vast ocean of online material needs to be constantly […]
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Newly identified prehistoric pterosaur will help us understand evolution of flying reptiles
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Newly identified prehistoric pterosaur will help us understand evolution of flying reptiles

An artist's impression of the new pterosaur species, Cheoptera Mark Witton/Natural History Museum, Author provided When dinosaurs roamed the land, the skies above their heads were filled with a variety of soaring reptiles, which swept through the air on slender, membranous wings. These animals, pterosaurs, were not dinosaurs but their evolutionary cousins. We’ve just announced […]
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How bats ‘leapfrog’ their way home at night - new research
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How bats ‘leapfrog’ their way home at night – new research

The greater horseshoe bat is one of the UK's 18 bat species. Rudmer Zwerver/Shutterstock A silent ballet takes place above our heads at night as Britain’s bat populations leave their roosts to forage for food. Although their initial movement away from roosts is fairly well understood, until recently little was known about how they returned […]
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