Medieval horses buried in London had far-flung origins
Isotopic analysis of horse teeth from a medieval burial site suggest that the animals were imported to England from Scandinavia…
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Can India build a world-leading computer chip industry from scratch?
India currently has a fairly small chip-manufacturing industry, but prime minister Narendra Modi wants the country to become a dominant…
New-to-science stick insect is the heaviest ever found in Australia
A giant stick insect species found in Australia’s Wet Tropics named Acrophylla alta can reach 40 centimetres in length and…
Extreme close-up of Jupiter’s moon Io captured by Juno spacecraft
NASA’s Juno spacecraft flew past Io on 30 December and took one of our best pictures yet of this moon…
Should we preserve the pre-AI internet before it is contaminated?
The rise of AI-generated content since 2022 risks making it impossible to know when information was produced solely by humans,…
Pepper X: The world has a new hottest chilli
Pepper X scorches the previous record holder, the Carolina Reaper, by a million Scoville heat units
Doubts cast over D-Wave’s claim of quantum computer supremacy
D-Wave's claim that its quantum computers can solve problems that would take hundreds of years on classical machines have been…
Astronomers spotted the highest energy light ever seen from a pulsar
Gamma rays with energies upwards of 20 teraelectronvolts have been recorded from the Vela pulsar – 20 times higher than…
Light-based computers are getting close to a commercial launch
Computers that use photons rather than electrons to manipulate data promise greater speed and energy efficiency, and the technology is…
Honey made by ants could treat some bacterial and fungal infections
An ant species in Australia makes honey that killed some bacterial and fungal infections in the lab, raising hopes that…