Seaweed-eating robot listed among TIME’s best inventions
A robot that “eats” seaweed has been named among TIME’s best inventions of 2023. The AlgaRay robot glides on the...
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New study will help uncover new ways of discovering history’s “lost worlds”
Philosophy, art and music will be used to explore the science of the deep past’s “lost worlds” as part of...
Historian secures prestigious prize to launch long-term research project on British anti-slavery
The global history of the British anti-slavery movement is to be the focus of a new and long-term research project...
From square to cube: AI hardware processes data in higher dimensions
In a paper published today in Nature Photonics, researchers from the University of Oxford, along with collaborators from the Universities...
Cut emissions and improve farming to protect wilderness
Humanity must cut carbon emissions and use farmland more efficiently to protect our planet’s remaining wilderness, new research shows. Climate...
Refugee legal reforms will have a disproportionate impact on sexually diverse asylum claimants, study warns
Refugee legal reforms will have a disproportionate impact on sexually diverse claimants, academics have warned. Researchers have said the Nationality...
World may have crossed solar power ‘tipping point’
The world may have crossed a “tipping point” that will inevitably make solar power our main source of energy, new...
Ocean circulation, ice melt and increasing tourism could all be contributing to Arctic microplastics
Scientists measured microplastic concentrations in the highly productive Barents Sea and suggest that ocean circulation, ice melt, tourism, inadequate waste...
Drifting crustaceans could hold key to climate change
The vast quantity of tiny animals in the global ocean could play a vital role in slowing climate change, scientists...