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Scientists have built a new type of robotic insect that can fly 100 times longer than previous generations.

“I wanted the chance to see how I stacked up against the other brainy kids from a much wider pool than Lakeside,” Gates said.

Researchers discovered long-lost computer code and used it to resurrect the early chatbot ELIZA.

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NASA's TESS exoplanet hunter has found the fastest-disintegrating planet ever. Losing a moons-worth of matter every million years, it is a prime target for the James Webb Space Telescope.

In 1981, American physicist and Nobel Laureate, Richard Feynman, gave a lecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) near Boston, in which he outlined a revolutionary idea. Feynman suggested that the strange physics of quantum mechanics could be used to perform calculations.

The weird outbursts of a distant supermassive black hole may be caused by a death-defying white dwarf walking a cosmic tight rope around it.

Way back in September 2015, the controversial engineer, entrepreneur and Silicon Valley magnate Anthony Levandowski set out to establish a new religion. He called it the Way of the Future – or WOTF.

Scientists have created a database so AI can compare thousands of 3D models.