A study in pigs has shown that the active ingredient in Ozempic and Wegovy directly boosts heart health, in addition to the ...

Hartmut Neven, who leads Google's Quantum AI lab, wants to entangle our brains with quantum processors to test the idea that ...

The largest snow crystal ever measured was 10 millimetres across, discovered by Kenneth Libbrecht, who photographed the record-breaker in Ontario, Canada, in December 2003. Libbrecht is a professor at ...

An AI model that understands the interplay between human body language, speech and emotion enables digital avatars to move ...

By the end of the century, most of the US outside the high mountains may never see deep snow cover the ground, with ...

As part of a project to make mathematics machine-readable, mathematicians have discovered an error in an important proof.

Several prototype aircraft that are intended to bring back commercial supersonic travel have been making big strides in ...

2024 was a breakthrough year for space exploration, including several milestones like the first private lunar lander touchdown and the first civilian spacewalk, as well as the beginnings of ...

Many researchers believe that the only way to build unambiguously useful quantum computers is to enable them to correct their own errors. A breakthrough in December from researchers at Google ...

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After years of rising obesity rates in the US, the numbers dipped slightly during 2023, though experts disagree about the ...