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Kosmos 482, a Soviet spacecraft that never made it beyond Earth’s orbit on its way to Venus, is due to come crashing down on ...

The makers of an AI model called Foresight say it could help predict disease or hospitalisation rates, but others have ...

Cases of dementia doubled worldwide between 1990 and 2021, but more than quadrupled in China during the same period ...

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As the number of electric vehicles increases, their increased demand could strain the grid – but small financial incentives ...

Being able to quickly pinpoint the location of events such as landslides and pyroclastic flows will help rescue efforts, say ...