Bees are astonishingly good at making decisions – and our computer model explains how that's possible

Jun 28, 2023 15:30 pm UTC| Science

A honey bees life depends on it successfully harvesting nectar from flowers to make honey. Deciding which flower is most likely to offer nectar is incredibly difficult. Getting it right demands correctly weighing up...

Lab-grown meat techniques aren't new – cell cultures are common tools in science, but bringing them up to scale to meet society's demand for meat will require further development

Jun 28, 2023 15:30 pm UTC| Science

You might be old enough to remember the famous Wheres the Beef? Wendys commercials. This question may be asked in a different context since U.S. regulators approved the sale of lab-grown chicken meat made from cultivated...

Nuclear fusion breakthrough: Decades of research are still needed before fusion can be used as clean energy

Jun 28, 2023 15:28 pm UTC| Science

The U.S. Department of Energy reported a major scientific breakthrough in nuclear fusion science in December 2022. For the first time, more energy was released from a fusion reaction than was used to ignite it. While...

How uploading our minds to a computer might become possible

Jun 28, 2023 00:35 am UTC| Science

The idea that our mind could live on in another form after our physical body dies has been a recurring theme in science fiction since the 1950s. Recent television series such as Black Mirror and Upload, as well as some...

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Euclid space mission is set for launch – here's how it will test alternative theories of gravity

Jun 28, 2023 00:29 am UTC| Science

The European Space Agencys (Esa) Euclid mission will launch into space on a Falcon9 rocket from SpaceX on July 1, or soon after. Many of us who have worked on it will be in Florida to watch the nail-biting event. The...

Scientific fraud is rising, and automated systems won't stop it. We need research detectives

Jun 21, 2023 07:13 am UTC| Science

Fraud in science is alarmingly common. Sometimes researchers lie about results and invent data to win funding and prestige. Other times, researchers might pay to stage and publish entirely bogus studies to win an...

Scientists have created synthetic human embryos. Now we must consider the ethical and moral quandaries

Jun 19, 2023 06:26 am UTC| Science

Researchers have created synthetic human embryos using stem cells, according to media reports. Remarkably, these embryos have reportedly been created from embryonic stem cells, meaning they do not require sperm and...