SCIENCE

Ancient Egyptians shaped sheep’s horns – and we don’t know why

Sheep skulls modified by ancient Egyptians so that their horns grew upward instead of outwardB. De Cupere Sheep with deformed…

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Bird flu infects a pig in the US, potentially raising risks to humans

Every time H5N1 infects a mammal, it has a chance to develop mutations that make it more transmissibleAlamy Stock Photo…

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Data centres may soon burn as much extra gas as California uses daily

A power substation near a data centre in VirginiaNathan Howard/Bloomberg via Getty Images Silicon Valley’s scramble to build more data…

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Clean energy rollout means China’s emissions may have peaked

China is embracing solar power, with panels on the North Barren Mountain in ZhangjiakouCostfoto/NurPhoto/Getty Images A massive rollout of wind…

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AI models fall for the same scams that we do

Scams can fool AI modelsWong Yu Liang/Getty Images The large language models (LLMs) that power chatbots are increasingly being used…

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Extremely rare Bronze Age wooden tool found in English trench

Archaeologists cleaning excess mud off the Bronze Age spadeWessex Archaeology A wooden spade from the Bronze Age has been unearthed…

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Indestructible quantum rifts can exist in two places at once

An ion trap helped create a quantum defect in two places at onceANDREW BROOKES, NATIONAL PHYSICAL LABORATORY/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY Exotic…

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Why farming fish is more unsustainable than catching them in the wild

Claims about the sustainability of fish farms have been vastly overstatedVIKEN KANTARCI/AFP via Getty Images It has been claimed that…

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Hospital hit by Hurricane Milton gets system to grab water from air

Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital was hit by Hurricane Milton earlier this weekDirk Shadd/Tampa Bay Times/ZUMA Wire/Alamy A children’s hospital…

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Tiniest ‘ruler’ ever measures distances as small as an atom’s width

This fluorescent technique can precisely measure minuscule distancesSteffen J. Sahl / Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences The tiniest “ruler”…

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