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July 12, 2026, 01:18 PM - 5 min read
Technology can recognise patterns. People provide empathy, trust and clinical judgement. The future of mental health care may likely depend on combining the strengths of both.
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July 10, 2026, 01:59 PM - 7 min read
Cloning is still tricky, and it continues to raise questions about safety, regulation and whether some applications should be pursued at all.
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July 9, 2026, 01:29 PM - 6 min read
Their appeal is easy to understand. They are always available, highly customisable and offer a steady sense of being heard, desired and understood — at a time when loneliness and social disconnection are on the rise.
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July 8, 2026, 09:49 PM - 3 min read
The breakthrough provides the first detailed genetic blueprint of the crop, creating an important resource for researchers working on crop improvement, molecular breeding and functional genomics.
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July 8, 2026, 01:30 PM - 6 min read
Surface drones can be dispersed and operated across wide areas. But in a maritime environment they need a floating platform to operate from. The same goes for aerial drones. Neither can replace a Type 83’s large, portable missile magazines, command facilities, or defence of a carrier fleet. The Common Combat Vessel will provide some hybrid capabilities.
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July 7, 2026, 01:07 PM - 5 min read
People close to the epicentre may get little warning or none at all, because the earthquake waves arrive before the alert can be processed and sent. This is sometimes called the blind zone. It is not a design flaw. It is a physical limit.
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July 6, 2026, 01:59 PM - 6 min read
In short, no. There is no way to artificially produce the massive densities. The densest everyday material is many millions of times less dense than what is needed to produce a tiny black hole.
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July 3, 2026, 04:48 PM - 7 min read
Most craters from the early Earth have vanished. At North Pole Dome, one survived. Its rocks preserve the trace of a space impact from 3.024 billion years ago – a rare page from the violent youth of our planet, with the date still written in the stone.
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July 1, 2026, 12:32 PM - 6 min read
Gravitational waves offer an entirely independent way to measure the expansion of the universe. These large ripples in the fabric of space-time are produced when extremely dense objects, such as black holes, collide.
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June 30, 2026, 12:19 PM - 5 min read
AI interviewers can't connect with people the way human researchers can – they can produce only data, not meaning.
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June 24, 2026, 01:03 PM - 9 min read
Earth’s food would not necessarily be edible for them. Terrestrial protein might be of no use if their digestive systems used different amino acids. Our sugars might prove useless if their metabolism could not handle them. Our bacteria may devastate alien life – or perhaps not infect it at all.
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June 22, 2026, 12:55 PM - 8 min read
The United States has more than 624,000 highway bridges. About 220,000 need major repair or replacement, and 41,677 are rated poor, also called structurally deficient.
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