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Environment

What to expect at the COP16 biodiversity summit

Countries are convening in Colombia to debate how they will achieve wide-ranging targets to stem biodiversity loss and how they plan to pay for it

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Macrophotograph of a huge Eastern hornet (orientalis Vespa) against a blue sky on a Sunny summer day

Life

Hornets can hold their alcohol like no other animal on Earth

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Life

Preserved tracks suggest non-avian dinosaurs used their wings to run

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Group of modified swords analysed with neutron tomography

Humans

Many Iron Age swords may be tainted by modern forgery

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Physics

The laws of physics appear to follow a mysterious mathematical pattern

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Physics

Indestructible quantum rifts can exist in two places at once

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Health

Boosting brainwaves in sleep improves rats’ memory

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Earth

Folklore uncovers a tsunami that rocked Hawaii hundreds of years ago

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Mathematics

Mathematicians have found a new way to identify prime numbers

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Technology

Writing backwards can trick an AI into providing a bomb recipe

AI models have safeguards in place to prevent them creating dangerous or illegal output, but a range of jailbreaks have been found to evade them. Now researchers show that writing backwards can trick AI models into revealing bomb-making instructions.

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Health

Listening to music after surgery seems to be an effective painkiller

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Mind

We’re starting to understand what being bullied does to the brain

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Life

These stunning photos celebrate the intricacy of the microscopic world

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Health

More evidence that limiting social media won’t boost your well-being

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