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How a US agriculture agency became key in the fight against bird flu
Amidst an ongoing outbreak of a deadly bird flu virus in livestock, the US Department of Agriculture is doing more to prevent the spread than public health agencies are
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Earth’s mantle may have hidden plumes venting heat from its core
A ‘ghost plume’ identified deep in the mantle beneath Oman suggests there may be more heat flowing out of Earth’s core than previously thought
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Giant atoms 'trapped' for record time at room temperature
Putting unusually large atoms in a box with cold copper sides helped researchers control them for an unprecedented 50 minutes at room-temperature, an improvement necessary for building more powerful quantum computers and simulators
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Perseverance rover may hold secrets to newly discovered Mars volcano
There appears to be a volcano near Jezero crater on Mars and the Perseverance rover might already have samples from it that we could use to precisely date the activity of another planet's volcano for the first time
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Microwaves seem to experience imaginary time – and now we know how
Almost a decade ago, researchers calculated that microwaves can seemingly spend an imaginary amount of time within a material – now an experiment reveals how the phenomenon is perfectly real
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Blood vessel organoids quickly minimise damage to injured tissue
Blood vessels grown in the lab in just five days could quickly prevent the tissue damage that can occur after an accident
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Is superintelligent AI just around the corner, or just a sci-fi dream?
Tech CEOs are promising increasingly outlandish visions of the 2030s, powered by "superintelligence", but the reality is that even the most advanced AI models can still struggle with simple puzzles
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Why John Stewart Bell has been haunting quantum mechanics for decades
The “Bell test” was devised in the 1960s to uncover what’s going on in the quantum world, but it continues to be relevant today, says Karmela Padavic-Callaghan
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Complex blood vessel nets could be 3D printed for artificial organs
Artificial organ transplants have been held back by the difficulty of making networks of blood vessels - a problem scientists are now taking steps to overcome
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The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is about to totally transform astronomy
With the ability to scan the entire southern night sky every three days, the huge Vera C. Rubin Observatory could be about to start solving the mysteries of the universe, from dark matter to Planet Nine