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BOSTON -- A team of researchers from Japan wondered if painting cows with zebra-like stripes would prevent flies from biting them. Another group from Africa and Europe pondered the types of pizza lizards preferred to eat. Those researchers were...
A search operation is continuing in Norway for an award-winning American climate journalist, Alec Luhn, who went missing in bad weather while on a solo hike in the remote Folgefonna National Park. Luhn, 38, who has worked for The Guardian, The New Y...
SAN FRANCISCO --OpenAI is launching a ChatGPT-powered search engine that could put theartificial intelligencecompany in direct competition with Google and affect the flow of internet traffic seeking news, sports scores and other tim...
Researchers have made a scientific discovery that could be used to slow the signs of ageing. The Human Cell Atlas project has discovered how the human body creates skin from a stem cell, and even reproduced small amounts of skin in a lab. As well...
The fishing town of Wajima on Japan's west coast is burnt and broken. At its centre, the remnants of its old marketplace are still smouldering, as if an explosion had just erupted, wiping out an area the size of a football pitch....
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A suspect is still at large after a mass shooting event in Lewiston, Maine left at least 16 feared dead and dozens injured. Police are still looking for "armed and dangerous" Robert Card, a firearms instructor they named as a person ...
The world is breaching a key warming threshold at a rate that has scientists concerned, a BBC analysis has found. On about a third of days in 2023, the average global temperature was at least 1.5C higher than pre-industrial levels....
Google's AI firm DeepMind has used artificial intelligence to identify changes in human DNA that might cause diseases. The researchers believe they have pinpointed 89% of all the key mutations. The development is expected to spee...
A US citizen trapped in Turkey's third deepest cave for more than a week has been pulled to safety, rescuers say. More than 150 people were involved in efforts to save caver Mark Dickey after he developed stomach problems in the Morca Cav...
The UK is to rejoin the EU's flagship scientific research scheme, Horizon, the government has announced. UK-based scientists and institutions will be able to apply for money from the £81bn (€95bn) fund from today. Asso...
Amateur footage captures the moment a meteor streaks across the night sky in Turkey....
A massive search and rescue effort is under way in the North Atlantic after a submersible exploring the wreck of the Titanic went missing on Sunday. The research vessel Polar Prince lost contact with the crew of the Titan sub an hour and...
A submersible used to take tourists to view the wreck of the Titanic has gone missing in the Atlantic Ocean, sparking a search and rescue mission. The Boston Coastguard told the BBC an operation to find the submersible was under way on Mo...
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Sewage leaks are causing hospitals a host of problems as the backlog in repairs and maintenance grows. Hospitals in England reported patients slipping on sewage, staff becoming ill, and leaks in A&E departments, cancer wards and mater...
The devastation following the massive earthquake continues to spread, as the death toll surges in Turkey and Syria, officials said....
Locals have described their fear and confusion as the powerful quake hit in the early hours of the morning. "Paintings fell off the walls in the house," Samer, a resident of Syrian capital Damascus told Reuters. "I woke up terrified....
Ukrainian soldiers have been welcomed into Kherson by jubilant residents, after Russia said it had fully withdrawn from the key southern city. Video showed locals on the streets, flying Ukraine's national flag and chanting as Kyiv's troop...