India’s pioneering mission bolsters idea that Moon’s surface was molten
The Moon probably originated from material scattered into space when a large impactor struck the newly formed Earth.Credit: David Gannon/AFP
Switching between tasks can cause AI to lose the ability to learn
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Light bulbs have energy ratings — so why can’t AI chatbots?
As more data centres crop up in rural communities, local opposition to them has grown.Credit: Brian Lawless/PA/Alamy As millions of
‘Flash droughts’ fuelled devastating Canadian wildfires
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Prefrontal and lateral entorhinal neurons co-dependently learn item–outcome rules
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What Science and Nature are good for: causing paper cuts
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Multi-habitat landscapes are more diverse and stable with improved function
Field sites We sampled 30 sites in southwest England and southern Wales, each containing one, two or three of six
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Stone Age builders had engineering savvy, finds study of 6000-year-old monument
The Neolithic farmers and herders who built a massive stone chamber in southern Spain nearly 6,000 years ago possessed a