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The whale graveyards that transform the deep sea

(Credit: Alex Dawson)

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A microelectrode from a brain-computer interface attached to a model of a brain (Credit: University of California, Davis)

Intelligence Revolution

How AI can read your thoughts

By Laurie Clarke

A still from camera trap footage showing a snow leopard standing on rocky, snow-covered ground in the Tian Shan mountain range in Uzbekistan (Credit: Gissar State Nature Reserve)

The former Soviet reserve where snow leopards roam

By Michaela Strachan and India Latham

A collage of a woman looking at a phone (Credit: Serenity Strull/ BBC)

Do you have to be polite to AI?

By Thomas Germain

Ilya Kazansky, CEO of Sphotonix wearing a white lab coat and blue latex gloves holds up a small square glass plate with grid markings on it to see through it (Credit: SPhotonix)

How 'memory crystals' could slash data emissions

By Laurie Clarke

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What's the best way to learn a new language?

By Krupa Padhy

Earth

Three fat-stemmed king bolete mushrooms lined up on a forest floor (Credit: Getty Images)

How fungi mine rare earth metals from waste

By Chris Baraniuk

An Alpine skier does a jump at the 2026 Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics (Credit: Getty Images)

Why it's becoming harder to be a Winter Olympian

By Isabelle Gerretsen

Silhouetted researchers Erik Trampe and Nadia Nord stand inside the Carlsbad Caverns, New Mexico (Credit: Lars Behrendt)

The cave expanding our search for alien life

By Jasmin Fox-Skelly

A line of women, the front three wearing stork masks (Credit: Hargila Army)

The bird of ill omen saved by an all-women army

By Kamala Thiagarajan

Health

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The nurses caring for new parents in the Netherlands

Health

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The nurses caring for new parents in the Netherlands

Earth

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'The new tobacco': The cities banning fossil fuel adverts

Food

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How ultra-processed foods affect our gut microbiome

Keeping Tabs

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I hacked ChatGPT and Google's AI - and it only took 20 minutes

Let's Talk

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How toddlers in Finland are saving an endangered Sámi language

Earth

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'We prepare for the wrong disasters': Earth's fight against encroaching saltwater

Psychology

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The myth that women are more naturally empathetic than men

Physics

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We still don't know why curling stones move the way they do