three research priorities for the next government
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How obesity drugs like Ozempic create a full feeling
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Bionic leg moves like a natural limb — without conscious thought
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Tech giants are ‘open-washing’ their AI models
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‘Polar rain aurora’ seen from Earth for the first time
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Measuring gravitational attraction with a lattice atom interferometer
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The strategy behind one of the most successful labs in the world
The Medical Research Council’s Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB) in Cambridge, UK, is a world leader in basic biology research.
Hotspot shelters stimulate frog resistance to chytridiomycosis
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The Milky Way is ‘less weird’ than we thought
Our Galactic home just got a remodel. Peering through the dust and gas that intersperse our Galaxy, astronomers have found
Ediacaran fossil provides insight into early animal evolution
RESEARCH BRIEFINGS 26 June 2024 Sea sponges were among the first animals to evolve. But, perplexingly, they left few early