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NHS England is pulling its open-source software from the internet because of fears around computer-hacking AI models like ...

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An impression made in clay around 175,000 years ago could be a kneeprint left by one of the builders of a strange stalagmite ...

A comprehensive study exploring coffee’s physiological effects finds that some of its benefits are down to polyphenols and ...

Two quantum computers and two supercomputers teamed up to break the record for the biggest molecule yet to be simulated using ...