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Too much social media gives AI chatbots â€˜brain rotâ€™

Why Indiaâ€™s controversial â€˜cloud seedingâ€™ trial failed to make it rain

7 basic science discoveries that changed the world

Nanobody-based recombinant antivenom for cobra, mamba and rinkhals bites

Daily briefing: The secret language of plants

News & Comment

Why Indiaâ€™s controversial â€˜cloud seedingâ€™ trial failed to make it rain

Too much social media gives AI chatbots â€˜brain rotâ€™

Can IVF save the northern white rhino from extinction? â€” Octoberâ€™s best science images

â€˜Teenage T. rexâ€™ fossil is actually a different species

We need a new Turing test to assess AIâ€™s real-world knowledge

Single antivenom protects against 17 different snakebites

7 basic science discoveries that changed the world

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T. rex debate settled: contested fossils are smaller rival species, not juveniles

Ultrasound-driven artificial muscles can grasp, flex and swim

Wildfire smoke and its harmful effects will worsen with climate change

Molecular â€˜gluesâ€™ and â€˜bumpersâ€™ on receptors can bias signalling inside the cell

Treatment made that is effective against a wide range of snake venoms

To make water, exoplanets might just need some pressure

Electronic paper could enable virtual reality with human-eye resolution

What changing energy flows reveal about Africaâ€™s ecosystems

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Experiments reveal extreme water generation during planet formation

Nanotyrannus and Tyrannosaurus coexisted at the close of the Cretaceous

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