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Victoria Gill Science correspondent, BBC News Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund Female gorillas appear to maintain their social relationships for many years The relationships built up between female mountain gorillas are more important than previously understood, new research from Rwanda suggests. It shows that when one of these social great apes …

Sonja Jessup BBC London Home Affairs Correspondent BBC Shaun Thompson is challenging the Met Police’s use of live facial recognition technology after he was wrongly identified as a suspect A man who is bringing a High Court challenge against the Metropolitan Police after live facial recognition technology wrongly identified him …

Eighty years ago today, an American B-29 bomber dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. It was the dawn of the atomic age, but the birth of the bomb can be traced beyond the deserts of New Mexico to Britain, five years earlier. A copy of a …

The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) plans to cancel $500m (£376m) in funding for mRNA vaccines being developed to counter viruses like the flu and Covid-19. The move will impact 22 projects being led by major pharmaceutical companies, including Pfizer and Moderna, for vaccines against bird flu …

Earth’s rotation is randomly speeding up, and nobody is quite sure why. These speedups, which have occurred several times over the last few years, haven’t had any effect on daily life, but they also haven’t gone unnoticed by science. Tuesday, Aug. 5 is the next date when Earth’s rotation is …

Carol Kirkwood Lead weather forecaster BBC Despite great strides in the accuracy of forecasting, there are still gaps in public trust Sometimes I’ll be walking around a supermarket, and a shopper will approach me in the aisle. “I hosted a barbecue on Saturday and you told me it was going …

Getty Images Parts of the Great Barrier Reef have suffered the largest annual decline in coral cover since records began nearly 40 years ago, according to a new report. Northern and southern branches of the sprawling Australian reef both suffered their most widespread coral bleaching, the Australian Institute of Marine …

Despite the company’s name, OpenAI hasn’t dropped an open version of its AI models since GPT-2 in 2019. That changed on Tuesday, as CEO Sam Altman shared two new open-weights, reasoning AI models, named gpt-oss-120b (120 billion parameters) and gpt-oss-20b (20 billion parameters). If open-weights is a new piece of …

Amid the many AI chatbots and avatars at your disposal these days, you’ll find all kinds of characters to talk to: fortune tellers, style advisers, even your favorite fictional characters. But you’ll also likely find characters purporting to be therapists, psychologists or just bots willing to listen to your woes. …

Skims Some medical experts have criticised the product over claims it will give you a snatched, or defined, jawline The uglier you look going to sleep, the more beautiful you will look in the morning – that’s the mantra of people on TikTok who are taking part in “morning shed” …

More than a decade after a mysterious killer devastated sea star populations along the Pacific coast of North America, scientists believe they have finally found the culprit. The mass die-off, which began in 2013, wiped out an estimated five billion sea stars from Mexico to Alaska, and continues to affect …

[ Credit: Anna Shvets from Pexels A new study has found that improving pre-hospital stroke identification accuracy in women to match that of men will lead to significant health benefits and cost savings for all Australians. Published in the Medical Journal of Australia, the study sought to estimate the long-term …

Georgina Rannard Science correspondent NASA A concept image of NASA’s Fission Surface Power Project US space agency Nasa will fast-track plans to build a nuclear reactor on the Moon by 2030, according to US media. It is part of US ambitions to build a permanent base for humans to live …

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Artificial intelligence is getting smarter. But it may also be getting more dangerous. A new study reveals that AI models can secretly transmit subliminal traits to one another, even when the shared training data appears harmless. Researchers showed that AI systems can …

BBC Listen to Steve read this article Has the relationship between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin gone off the rails? A popular Russian newspaper thinks so. It turned to trains to illustrate the current state of US-Russian ties. “A head-on collision seems unavoidable,” declared tabloid Moskovsky Komsomolets recently. “The Trump …

Adopted Derry girl and aspiring scientist Skhululekile Mupemhi has pledged to use her involvement in the Miss Africa Ireland pageant to empower young women to “embrace their diversity and celebrate their culture”. Skhululekile, 19, is the only contestant from Northern Ireland to be a finalist in the competition, which will …

Earth’s rotation is randomly speeding up, and nobody is quite sure why. These speedups, which have occurred several times over the last few years, haven’t had any effect on daily life, but they also haven’t gone unnoticed by science. Tuesday, Aug. 5 is the next date when Earth’s rotation is …

“Pac-Man [the character] was designed to represent the core concept of the game, ‘to eat’, in the simplest way possible,” Michiko Kumagai, the licensing manager for the iconic character at the game’s publisher, Bandai Namco, tells the BBC. “Just like the McDonald’s arches, he’s become an internationally recognised symbol. At one …

[ Credit: RDNE Stock project from Pexels The simple daily habit of standing up more often may impact heart health for postmenopausal women, according to a new study from the University of California San Diego. Researchers reported that women experiencing overweight or obesity who increased daily sit-to-stand movements saw measurable …

The scientist who first raised the alarm over microplastics in the world’s oceans has warned of a “David vs Goliath” battle between scientists and the plastics industry – as delegates begin to negotiate a global deal to reduce plastic pollution. As United Nations talks begin this week, Professor Richard Thompson, …