Earlier analyses of human–machine interaction mostly showed negative synergy effects. A review of 74 studies suggested that human–AI teams perform less well than the better of the two working alone.

When Heinrich Schliemann discovered the gold-rich shaft tombs of Mycenae with their famous gold masks over 100 years ago, he could only speculate about the relationship of the people buried in them.

On open beaches, shingle riverbeds and bare volcanic plateaus, banded dotterels – or double-banded plovers, as they are called in Australia – are a familiar and much-loved sight across New Zealand, ...

“My third observation relates to the nature of the Milky Way (...) No matter which part of it one targets with the telescope, one finds a huge number of stars, several of which are quite large and ...

Debate over the Anthropocene: In 2024, the International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS) rejected the proposal to recognise the Anthropocene as a new geological epoch, despite decades of research ...

The gut microbiome may shape vaccine responses: Differences in people’s gut microbes before vaccination are linked to how strongly they developed fever after vaccination. Microbial flagellin is a key ...

"I could just as easily have become a philologist or a historian. What led me to hard science was a course of mathematical lectures which I attended at the university and which gave me an inner ...

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The number of people living in liberal democracies is declining. The democracies that remain, meanwhile, are fragile, not least because many people view politics and political parties with scepticism.

Solid-state batteries could store electricity more efficiently and safely in the future than today's batteries with liquid electrolytes. Space charges that form in solid-state batteries have so far ...

Scientists in the Multisensory Perception and Action Group at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tübingen, led by Jan Souman and Marc Ernst, have now presented the first empirical ...

In 1347, plague first entered the Mediterranean via trade ships transporting goods from the territories of the Golden Horde in the Black Sea. The disease then disseminated across Europe, the Middle ...