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Planet Earth has just lived through its third-warmest year on record, EU scientists said on Wednesday. Last year was also the hottest on record for Antarctica, another alarm bell that climate change is even catching up with the remote, ice-covered continent that for decades appeared sheltered from it. Read more: Why Antarctica could hold key […]

Social media platform X says it has made major changes to its AI chatbot Grok after users started making sexual photos of real women and children. Images generated by Grok have manipulated photos of people, often removing their clothes or making them pose in suggestive ways. Elon Musk’s platform has come under heavy scrutiny worldwide,

New research into the health effects of spaceflight has shown astronauts’ brains change position and shape over time. Following spaceflight, the brain shifts “upward and backward within the skull”, with sensory and motor regions showing the largest shifts, the study found. “There are also regional, nonlinear lateral deformations that differ between the superior and inferior

A commonly used gel has restored sight to people suffering from a rare and untreatable condition that causes blindness, scientists have said. HPMC – hydroxypropyl methylcellulose – a low-cost gel used in most eye surgeries – restored vision for seven out of eight patients with hypotony, researchers at Moorfields Eye Hospital in London found. Hypotony,