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Two studies have linked “problematic smartphone use” to higher rates of anxiety, depression and insomnia among teenagers, but the researchers haven’t

A drop in shipping emissions has caused a surge in warming at the Great Barrier Reef, fuelling calls for drastic actions such as marine cloud brighten

The highly unstable radioactive element promethium is hard to study in the lab, but chemists have now coaxed it into forming a compound in water so th

An extremely precise detection method for single electrons, which pins down the particles with a resolution of trillionths of a second, may provide a

A computer chip featuring over 400 billion transistors can train artificial intelligence models faster and using less energy, says Nvidia – but it is

Defining the fundamental units of electricity used to require two finicky quantum devices – but now scientists have found an easier way to standardise

Exposing miniature versions of tumours to different drugs in the lab helped children with advanced cancer live for longer in a small trial

The makers of an AI model called Foresight say it could help predict disease or hospitalisation rates, but others have expressed concern about the fac

Four-atom molecules glued together by microwaves have broken the record for being the most complicated molecule to reach temperatures just billionths

Spaghetti strands that are 200 times thinner than a human hair could be woven into bandages to help prevent infections