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A reluctant deal finalised at the COP29 climate summit isn't generous enough to encourage nations to submit more ambitious ...

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New technologies to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere are growing in scale –though their effect on the climate ...

A rock that formed around 4.5 billion years ago on Mars before being blasted into space by a meteor strike and making its way ...

Using GPT-4o, the model behind ChatGPT, researchers have replicated the personality and behaviour of more than 1000 people, ...

Earthen channels that span more than 640 kilometres show that pre-Mayan Mesoamericans built large-scale fish-trapping ...

Chloramine is used as a disinfectant in drinking water systems from the US to Australia. Research now shows it breaks down ...

Quantum computers could get a boost from artificial intelligence, thanks to a model created by Google DeepMind that cleans up ...

Kelly Weinersmith, co-author of A City on Mars, the latest pick for our New Scientist Book Club, and Cat Bohannon lay out the ...

Endangered Ethiopian wolves feed on the nectar of red hot poker plants, and may transport pollen from flower to flower as ...