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Son had made a similar pledge in 2016 to spend $50bn over Donald Trump’s four-year US presidential term. A new study has found that people eating several portions of dark chocolate per week were ...

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We may earn commission if you buy from a link. Why Trust Us? Scientists have created, manipulated, and imaged an altermagnetic material for the first time. This theorized material has likely ...

A new vaccine against cancer has been announced by the Russian Ministry of Health that it says will be available to patients from early 2025—but scientists remain skeptical. Professor Kingston ...

But what exactly is an AI agent? As a computer scientist, I offer this definition: AI agents are technological tools that can learn a lot about a given environment, and then – with a few simple ...

Our overlapping Trump and COVID eras have seen a fairly sharp downturn in public trust in scientists. Around one in 10 Americans report less support for science now than they did before COVID.

The geoengineering scheme, known as stratospheric aerosol injection, would not be cheap, but scientists say it could buy us some time until we reach net-zero carbon. When you purchase through ...

This groundbreaking find flips the script on magnetism, revealing it to be more dynamic than scientists once believed. Step into a hidden world so small it's almost unimaginable -- the nanoscale.

However, in a recent study, researchers observed something entirely unprecedented: a pair of supermassive black holes devouring an enormous gas cloud that's unlike any celestial meal scientists ...

A speech by an American scientist from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) during a top AI conference last week has sparked anger for comments that specified the Chinese nationality of ...