The European Union recently introduced strict laws to stop social media platforms from targeting children with personalised advertisements. But a study of TikTok reveals a massive loophole: teens are ...

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IN THE run up to the match, Lee Sedol was feeling confident. He was about to play an artificial intelligence that had been trained to play the board game Go. But as one of the world’s best players of ...

Deep canyons in the Andes are the perfect location to catch the most energetic particles in the universe. Carlos Argüelles-Delgado reveals how these intergalactic envoys could help prove the quantum n ...

Longer summers are allowing more king penguin chicks to bulk up and survive the winter, but the penguins' main fishing area is shifting further away as temperatures rise ...

The reliable internet connections provided by Starlink offer a huge advantage on the battlefield. But as access is dependent on the whims of controversial billionaire Elon Musk, militaries are looking ...

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Humans perceive aesthetic beauty in inanimate objects partly because the brain his highly attuned to pattern, explain our readers ...

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