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These frog 'saunas’ could help endangered species fight off a deadly fungus
00:47 Searching for dark matter in black holes
Researchers have been scanning the skies looking for black holes that formed at the very beginning of t…
2 years, 3 months ago
Audio long read: How NASA astronauts are training to walk on the Moon in 2026
In 2026, NASA aims to send humans back to the Moon's surface, as part of the Artemis III mission. In preparation, astronauts have been performing moo…
2 years, 3 months ago
Why ‘open source’ AIs could be anything but, the derailment risks of long freight trains, and breeding better wheat
00:31 How open are ‘open source’ AI systems?
Many of the large language models powering AI systems are described as ‘open source’ but critics say this…
2 years, 3 months ago
How do fish know where a sound comes from? Scientists have an answer
00:46 How light touches are sensed during sex
150 years after they were discovered, researchers have identified how specific nerve-cell structures on …
2 years, 3 months ago
Hybrid working works: huge study reveals no drop in productivity
00:48 Short-haul spaceflight's effect on the human body.
A comprehensive suite of biomedical data, collected during the first all-civilian spaceflight…
2 years, 3 months ago
Twitter suspended 70,000 accounts after the Capitol riots and it curbed misinformation
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00:46 Making a molecular Bose-Einstein condensate
For the first time, researchers have coaxed molecules into a bizarre form of matter …
2 years, 3 months ago
How AI could improve robotics, the cockroach’s origins, and promethium spills its secrets
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00:25 What the rise of AI language models means for robots
Companies are melding artificial intelligence with robotics, in an effort t…
2 years, 4 months ago
How mathematician Freeman Hrabowski opened doors for Black scientists
Growing up in Alabama in the 1960s, mathematician Freeman Hrabowski was moved to join the civil rights moment after hearing Martin Luther King Jr spe…
2 years, 4 months ago
Audio long read: How does ChatGPT ‘think’? Psychology and neuroscience crack open AI large language models
AIs are often described as 'black boxes' with researchers unable to to figure out how they 'think'. To better understand these often inscrutable syst…
2 years, 4 months ago
Fentanyl addiction: the brain pathways behind the opioid crisis
00:45 The neuroscience of fentanyl addiction
Research in mice has shown that fentanyl addiction is the result of two brain circuits working in tandem,…
2 years, 4 months ago