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Forests full of dead trees aren’t just found by the US coasts – they are also appearing far from the sea around freshwater ...

Shown at the New York Film Festival, John Torres’s film The Remotes tells of a mysterious app that seems to be controlling drivers' bodies, causing them to crash. It is challenging but worth it, says ...

A new species of giant waterlily identified with the help of social media and satellite photos is just one of three ...

Russia says it is winding down precautionary measures taken after a lab worker at a plague research institute died. But what ...

US President Donald Trump has declared that artificial intelligence should now be called “super intelligence”. Columnist ...

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What are we to make of Digger, a climate satire by a normally well-respected film-maker that’s been largely panned by critics ...

Researchers are worried about the impact the strongest-known El Niño will have on the Great Barrier Reef, and whether ...