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2RTXJED A common garden spider (Araneus diadematus) spins an circular orb web in the back garden of a south London home, on 15th September 2023, in London, England.

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Could spider silk be the answer to sustainable fashion?

Our Future Chronicles column explores an imagined history of inventions and developments yet to come. In its latest instalment, Rowan Hooper reveals how by 2029, we had learned how to make synthetic spider silk, leading to a revolution in clothing

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Children are being overlooked in conversations about AI

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Children are being overlooked in conversations about AI

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Ritual Sticks - Uncle Russell Mullett on the balcony of Cloggs Cave

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Ancient humans understood the future and the past pretty much as we do

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2W8RE1K Medical AI outlined by varied pills, showcasing the blend of pharmaceuticals with artificial intelligent tech innovation. Multi colored pills.

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A healthy dose of AI can improve medical care and save lives

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How the covid-19 pandemic distorted our experience of time

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How the covid-19 pandemic distorted our experience of time

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2NR8F5N Two workers try to get boxes of vegetables over the barriers in the empty road outside the Union Hospital in Wuhan in central China's Hubei province Thursday, Feb. 20, 2020. The city badly-hit by the COVID-19 escalated its ban on vehicles in the outbreak. (FeatureChina via AP Images)

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We must revisit the covid-19 pandemic to prepare for future outbreaks

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MANHATTAN, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES - 2024/09/20: Participant seen holding a sign at the protest. Youth climate activists and allies rallied and marched through New York City calling on world leaders to tear down the pillars of fossil fuels, shortly before the beginning of the United Nations General Assembly and the concurrent Climate Week NYC. (Photo by Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Environment

There's a new way to make everyday products without using fossil fuels

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False-colour scanning electron micrograph of skin from the palm of the hand of a 30 year old man. The skin here is neatly arranged in ridges. Sweat pores are seen as miniature craters along the ridges. The cells forming the external surface of the skin, or epidermis, have been flattened & hardened by deposition within them of the fibrous protein keratin. This tough, dead layer of cells is shed continuously & is replaced by new, maturing cells which take a month to migrate from the base of the epidermis. Magnification: x20 at 6x4.5cm size

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Forget aesthetics, the reason to look after our skin should be health

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Should chatbots have rights – and should we care?

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Should chatbots have rights – and should we care?

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On 22 August 2024, summit staff reinstalled Rubin Observatory's commissioning camera (ComCam) on the telescope. ComCam has previously been on the telescope, but was removed before the installation of the secondary mirror in late July. ComCam ??? a smaller (144 megapixel), simpler version of the full 3200-megapixel LSST Camera ??? is being used for testing activities prior to installing the LSST Camera, anticipated to happen late 2024. In the coming weeks the summit team will install the primary/tertiary mirror, enabling ComCam to produce the first astronomical data from the Simonyi Survey Telescope.

Space

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory gets started next year. I can't wait

Around the middle of 2025, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory will begin its mission to help us better understand the cosmos. There's a lot to look forward to, says Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

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Environment

After another dire year for the environment, here's to better times

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Technology

High-tech archaeology shows we aren't the first to endure hard times

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Physics

Science can be our trusty shield in a time of deepening crises

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Environment

To fix the world's problems, we need both optimism and pessimism

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