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But finding a device that combines recorded footage with a light that autonomously moves and follows intruders is a different proposition entirely — and one that takes a more proactive approach to protecting your home…
Quordle was one of the original Wordle alternatives and is still going strong now more than 1,500 games later. It offers a genuine challenge, though, so read on if you need some Quordle hints today — or scroll down…
This meeting comes hot on the heels of the UN COP17 biodiversity summit in Yerevan, Armenia, which affirmed yet again that the world is also in the middle of a biodiversity crisis . Progress in each case, whether…
All of the problems were in papers by Vishwa Jit Gupta, one of India’s most celebrated palaeontologists at the time. More than 10,000 research papers were retracted in 2023 — a new record Gupta was outraged. But further…
But status seems to trump gender. An analysis of more than 20,000 authors and 60,000 acknowledged contributors on papers published in seven PLOS journals between 2016 and 2021 highlighted persistent disparities between…
Read carefully. Your late predecessors did not. What should I do when I first make sensor contact with an alien? Nothing. All unknown alien lifeforms are extremely dangerous, and death is the usual First Contact result —…
His demonstration that thin films of polyacetylene — an organic polymer — can become conductive when doped with small amounts of other chemicals earned him a share of the 2000 Nobel Prize in Chemistry (with Alan…
Most of my anxiety came from looking out the window at perfect surfing conditions and realizing I didn’t have much time to finish my experiments and leave while the ‘waves were firing’. Several years on, I am now an…
Energy use by US data-centre servers more than tripled between 2014 and 2023 — reaching 4.4% of the nation’s total electricity consumption. This figure is expected to at least double by 2028 1 . However, AI might also…
French fishers blockaded a fuel depot and clashed with police. Government and household budgets were squeezed around the world as interest rates rose and the sales of electric vehicles roughly doubled year-on-year in…