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Although it leaves few written traces, the work of preparing specimens is a crucial component of scientific research. A preparator removes matrix from a “beautiful” fish skeleton covered in tiny fossilized scales. On a Thursday at 9:30 a.m.

During WWI the act of hearing was recast as a tactical activity — one that could determine human and even national survival.

This week marks the 25th anniversary of when astronauts first entered the beginnings of the International Space Station. A quarter of a century later, the station is manned by seven international crew members and has become an iconic and important part of space history.

Scientists say the juggernaut’s breakaway from Antarctica is a stark reminder of the potentially disastrous implications as global sea levels rise.

Our brains don't look that special when looking at their relative size compared to our closest animal relatives. To understand human intelligence, scientists are now looking deeper.

The discovery that the brain has different systems for representing small and large numbers provokes new questions about memory, attention and mathematics. Introduction More than 150 years ago, the economist and philosopher William Stanley Jevons discovered something curious about the number 4.

You can say no to the tipping tablet. That doesn’t mean you should. If you haven’t heard it or felt it yourself, people are angry about the state of tipping. Consumers have noticed that they’re being asked to tip more often and for higher amounts than before.

Sign up for notifications to the latest Insight features via the BBC Sport app and find the most recent in the series. The mourners, dressed in black, cloaked in silence, hear it before they see it.

In a preprint research paper titled "Does GPT-4 Pass the Turing Test?", two researchers from UC San Diego pitted OpenAI's GPT-4 AI language model against human participants, GPT-3.5, and ELIZA to see which could trick participants into thinking it was human with the greatest success.

I am going to show you some pictures. Tell me whether each is more like a dog or a cat.