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Starwatch: A Venus-spotting challenge with a beautiful reward
The bright planet and the young crescent moon will make an attractive pairing on Monday evening
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‘Immature playground boasting’: Mathematicians uneasy at OpenAI’s latest scalp
As OpenAI model cracks Millennium Prize Problem that puzzled experts for decades, many feel shocked at pace of change
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‘Patients’ who pay $200,000 to be frozen after death are waiting to be reborn in an Australian shed
Exclusive: Southern Cryonics operates out of a shed in Holbrook in rural NSW. Experts say reanimation is ‘a dream’ but t...
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Indonesian foragers may have sucked on mind-altering nuts 25,000 years ago, research finds
Analysis of two skeletons reveals tooth wear and traces of psychoactive substance in what may be earliest known evidence...
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OpenAI claims to have solved maths problem that stumped humans for decades
Company behind ChatGPT says 10,000 of its AI systems cracked the Navier-Stokes problem in 88 hours
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How meteorologists recreated weather that helped decide second world war
Experts helped guide weather scenes in Pressure – a film depicting dramatic buildup to 1944’s D-day landings
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Konstantinos Politis obituary
Archaeologist who spent his career excavating and protecting the sites and artefacts of Jordan’s Dead Sea shore
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Cravings ‘like heroin withdrawal’: what happens when weight-loss drugs don’t work?
GLP-1 medications have been a gamechanger in the fight against obesity. But for a minority of patients, their impact is...
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Starwatch: Waning crescent moon gets close to brilliant beacon of Jupiter
The moon will pass less than a degree north of the giant planet and will be on its other side the next morning