- November 14, 2024
Watch autonomous cars do doughnuts and drift sideways round corners
Driverless cars can now do doughnuts and drift like stunt drivers, skidding sideways around corners while maintaining control, which might
Any delay in reaching net zero will influence climate for centuries
Ice collapsing into the water at Perito Moreno Glacier in Los Glaciares National Park, Argentina R.M. Nunes/Alamy Even a few
We are a long way from pregnancy being safe on Mars
Dangerous radiation reaches Mars at levels we aren’t exposed to on Earth, which makes the Red Planet a particularly dangerous
Ancient Mesopotamian clay seals offer clues to the origin of writing
A cylinder seal and its design imprinted onto clay Franck Raux © 2001 GrandPalaisRmn (Musée du Louvre) The world’s oldest
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 transmissible Alamy Stock
Quantum batteries could discharge more power than they store
Simulations suggest that when a quantum battery shares a quantum state with the device it is powering, the device can
AI models fall for the same scams that we do
Scams can fool AI models Wong Yu Liang/Getty Images The large language models (LLMs) that power chatbots are increasingly being
Nuclear waste tanker pilots futuristic aluminium sail
The Pacific Grebe is spending three weeks testing the FastRig sail NTS/Smart Green Shipping A tanker normally used to ship
The laws of physics appear to follow a mysterious mathematical pattern
A mathematical pattern links the major equations of physics Andresr/Getty Images A strange pattern running through the equations of physics
We're starting to understand what being bullied does to the brain
Being bullied when young seems to alter your brain structure for years to come – with different changes seen in