Artificial intelligence (AI) can be used to tell the difference between American whiskey and Scotch, and identify their ...

The European Commission will go ahead with a ban on the use of bisphenol A (BPA) in food contact materials, such as metal ...

The authors claim that the new AI can be a significant tool in preserving the murals of the Berlin Wall, which are vulnerable ...

Gigaton-scale carbon reductions offered by process that makes use of carbon-free calcium silicates from abundant minerals and ...

The programme that funds higher education facilities in the UK is performing well, according to an interim report, and is ...

Researchers at UK universities have adapted the text-based machine learning system GPT to predict crystal structures of inorganic materials, even though it can’t directly represent three-dimensional ...

There are elevated levels of leachable per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in several smartwatch wristbands, US researchers have shown. Fluoropolymers are often employed in such products owing ...

It was once not uncommon for researchers to make batches of festive alcohol. The preps involved steeping fruit in alcohol and adding spices, before final distillation. The glassware was always kept ...

A hole-transporting layer for perovskite solar cells with near-record efficiency has been developed using a machine learning algorithm. The work explored a vast region of chemical space much faster ...

Efforts to create ‘mirror life’ – life whose building blocks have the opposite handedness to life on Earth – should be halted, an international group of experts has recommended. The group warns that ...

2024 ended with at least one good news story. Early in December, world leaders, dignitaries, celebrities and clergy gathered on the Île de la Cité in Paris, France, to see Notre Dame cathedral open ...