This robot predicts when you’re going to smile – and smiles back
An AI-powered robot named Emo watches people’s facial expressions and tries to match them, in an effort to make robots more relatable
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Hunter-gatherers in Tanzania have incredibly diverse gut microbiomes
The huge diversity of the gut microbiome of Hadza hunter-gatherers from Tanzania hints at how industrialisation has influenced the variety of people’s
Trees on city streets cope with drought by drinking from leaky pipes
Urban trees lining streets fare better in dry spells than those in parks – now it seems that leaky water pipes are the reason for their endurance
Worms team up to form tentacles when they want to go places
Thousands of tiny nematode worms can join up to form tentacle-like towers that can straddle large gaps or hitch rides on larger animals
Two sneaky viruses may be messing with honeybee flight
The deformed wing and sacbrood viruses were thought to cause asymptomatic infections in adult bees. But the viruses make the insects fly slower and fa
Extreme heat is driving dramatic declines in tropical birds
The numbers of many tropical birds are plummeting, and now it has been shown that heat extremes intensified by global warming are the biggest factor d
Amazing new images of galaxies and nebulae caught by Euclid telescope
The European Space Agency’s Euclid space telescope has taken images of galaxies, galaxy clusters and newborn stars in unprecedented detail
Boiling tap water can remove 80 per cent of the microplastics in it
Tap water contains tiny particles of plastic and we don’t know how they affect our health – now it seems that boiling the water for 5 minutes can remo
Mathematicians create a tetrahedron that always lands on the same side
With the help of powerful computers, researchers discovered a four-sided shape that naturally rests on one side, and built a real-life version from ca
Mathematicians plan computer proof of Fermat’s last theorem
Fermat’s last theorem puzzled mathematicians for centuries until it was finally proven in 1993. Now, researchers want to create a version of the proof