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Clean energy rollout means China’s emissions may have peaked
China's carbon emissions may have peaked in 2023, as figures suggest its output has plateaued so far in 2024
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Quantum 'Schrödinger's cat' survives for a stunning 23 minutes
A typically fragile quantum superposition has been made to last exceptionally long, and could eventually be used as a probe for discovering new physics
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Flu viruses have evolved proteins that let them break through mucus
Computer simulations of how influenza A moves through human mucus found it is ideally configured to slide through the sticky stuff on its way to infecting cells
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The world is falling far short of its goal to halt biodiversity loss
In 2022, countries pledged to halt biodiversity loss by protecting 30 per cent of the planet by 2030, but progress has been too slow thus far
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How psychedelics and VR could reveal how we become immersed in reality
An outlandish experiment searching for a brain network that tunes up and down the feeling of immersion is hoping to unlock the therapeutic effects of psychedelics
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Meditation seems to improve our empathy for strangers
In a small study, women experienced more empathy for strangers who were experiencing pain after an eight-week meditation training programme
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Weird microbes could help rewrite the origin of multicellular life
Single-celled organisms called archaea can become multicellular when compressed, highlighting the role of physical forces in evolution
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Stone Age network reveals ancient Paris was an artisanal trading hub
Ancient stone goods found across France may have been made by skilled craftspeople in what is now Paris, who traded along vast networks
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AI models fall for the same scams that we do
Large language models can be used to scam humans, but AI is also susceptible to being scammed – and some models are more gullible than others
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NASA is developing a Mars helicopter that could land itself from orbit
The largest and most ambitious Martian drone yet could carry kilograms of scientific equipment over great distances and set itself down on the Red Planet unassisted