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Coffee’s mood-boosting effects aren’t just down to caffeine
Both caffeinated and decaffeinated coffee can lead to improvements in mood and cognitive performance, possibly through their effects on...
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Inside Sardinia’s Fierce Fight Over Renewable Energy
“Why are you here?” Fabrizio Pilo, an electrical engineer, asks me as we sit in an outdoor café near his home in Cagliari, an ancient city on the island of Sardinia. It’s a fair question. I’m a journalist from...
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The best new popular science books of May 2026
This month’s most exciting popular science books are surprisingly eclectic, and big on invention, ambition –and hubris. We’re tackling...
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Even brief AI use could hurt your ability to think, a new study finds
A new study from researchers at Carnegie Mellon, MIT, Oxford, and UCLA suggests that using an AI chatbot for just 10 minutes could negatively impact your ability to think and problem-solve. And honestly, the findings are a little alarming.As...
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Five architects of the AI economy explain where the wheels are coming off | TechCrunch
Earlier this week, five people who touch every layer of the AI supply chain sat down at the Milken Global Conference in Beverly Hills, where they talked with this editor about everything from chip shortages to orbital data centers...
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iPhone owners could get up to $95 from Apple settlement. Here’s what to know.
iPhone owners could receive up to $95 under a proposed $250 million settlement resolving claims that Apple misled customers about Siri's artificial intelligence features, according to a recent court filing.The class-action lawsuit, filed in federal...
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David Attenborough is one of a kind, for better or worse
David Attenborough is inarguably one of the UK’s national institutions. He consistently tops polls for the most popular and...
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Former Soviet scientific megastructures captured in striking photos
These colourful photographs capture the remains of what was once a constellation of Soviet scientific megaprojects, all intentionally designed...
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Bronze Age Britons fashioned copper-mining tools out of old bones
Even with the technology to make metal tools, people in Bronze Age Britain still used animal bone tools alongside...
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What to read this week: the excellent Beyond Belief by Helen Pearson
Beyond BeliefHelen Pearson,Princeton University Press
Often, when I read a non-fiction book, I think “this could have been an essay”....
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John Bolton expected to plead guilty in classified documents case
The justice department charged Bolton last October, accusing him of putting the public at risk by allegedly mishandling classified...