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Zoom through a 'spectacular' chain of ancient underwater...
A research expedition in the Southern Ocean has mapped a string of seamounts that help to shape the Antarctic Circumpolar Current...
Biased AI can make doctors' diagnoses less accurate
AI systems have the potential to help improve doctors' diagnoses, a new study suggests. But if bias is baked into the system, their...
Jellyfish elevator carrying fish from ocean depths captured...
Image of a fish catching a lift on a jellyfish elevator is one of the winners of the Royal Society Publishing Photography Competition.
Hubble Telescope captures a galaxy's 'forbidden' light...
The Hubble Telescope viewed a distant galaxy whose light appears to contradict some of the most common rules of quantum physics.
Poisonous gas wave may have snuffed out half of all sea...
About 510 million years ago, a deadly combination of low oxygen and surging hydrogen sulfide may have been what decimated 45% of all...
Atom-size black holes from the dawn of time could be devouring...
New research suggests that if tiny primordial black holes created during the Big Bang exist, some of them may have been snared by...
Discovery of 'calendar' rock carvings from Ancestral Pueblo...
Spiral petroglyphs carved into a canyon wall on the Colorado-Utah border may have been used as a calendar by the Ancestral Pueblo.
Iron oxide baked into Mesopotamian bricks confirms ancient...
About 3,000 years ago in ancient Mesopotamia, brickmakers imprinted the names of their kings into clay bricks. Now, an analysis of...
