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Daily doses of peanuts could desensitise adults with the allergy

Peanuts are one of the most common foods people are allergic to nafterphoto/Shutterstock Adults with peanut allergy reduced their risk of reactions by eating a

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New colour seen for the first time by tricking the eyes

Our retinas could be made to see a vivid shade of blue-green MikeCS images/Alamy Five people have witnessed an intense green-blue colour that has never

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Will we ever have confirmation of life outside our solar system?

Artist’s impression of the exoplanet K2-18b A. Smith/N. Mandhusudhan One of the strongest signs of life outside Earth was announced this week, but some astronomers

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Antarctic teams drill oldest ice cores yet in search of climate clues

The camp at Dome C on the East Antarctic plateau where the Beyond EPICA team are drilling ice cores Rob Mulvaney More than a century

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US military launches initiative to find the best quantum computer

The control room at quantum computer start-up Quantinuum Quantinuum The US military has launched an effort to determine who may be able to build a

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Space could emerge from time

Some physicists are questioning the idea of space-time SAKKMESTERKE/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY Physicists of the 19th century assumed that space was distinct from time – and

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AI data scrapers are an existential threat to Wikipedia

Wikipedia is under threat from the AI boom Chris Dorney / Alamy Wikipedia is one of the greatest knowledge resources ever assembled, containing crowdsourced contributions

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The best retro games console is the one you played at age 10

The Nintendo game Super Mario Advance, a version of Super Mario Bros compatible with a more modern console NINTENDO Gamers have especially strong nostalgia for

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Are Trump’s cuts to science the end of the endless frontier?

US President Donald Trump’s executive orders have led to drastic cuts across the sciences SHAWN THEW/POOL/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock In a letter to Michael Kratsios, director of the

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Little red dots seen by JWST might be a kind of black hole 'star'

Red specks in the early universe are puzzling astronomers, but a proposed explanation suggests they are the progenitors of supermassive black holes Source link