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A study in pigs has shown that the active ingredient in Ozempic and Wegovy directly boosts heart health, in addition to the benefits of losing weight

An AI model that understands the interplay between human body language, speech and emotion enables digital avatars to move more realistically when speaking

By the end of the century, most of the US outside the high mountains may never see deep snow cover the ground, with consequences for water storage as well as for the life on and beneath the snow

There is growing interest in exploring ways to counteract global warming by intervening in the atmosphere and the oceans, but planned trials are highly controversial

Several prototype aircraft that are intended to bring back commercial supersonic travel have been making big strides in recent years – but it is unknown how well the return of Concorde-like flights will go down with customers

As part of a project to make mathematics machine-readable, mathematicians have discovered an error in an important proof. Thankfully there was a fix, but the incident highlights the potential for other errors to be lurking in the mathematics literature

The coding that forms the basis of Google’s recent breakthrough in error-correcting quantum computers is facing fierce competition

After years of rising obesity rates in the US, the numbers dipped slightly during 2023, though experts disagree about the exact cause

The teeth of dolphins and other toothed whales are connected to a uniquely thick bundle of nerve fibres, which might play a role in sound detection

Some quantum fields that extend throughout all of space-time could be a rich resource of quantum entanglement that can be extracted forever