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Astronomers may have "saved cosmology" by gathering the largest sample yet of some of the most ancient galaxies ever seen, the so-called "little red dots" observed by the James Webb Space ...

TOKYO -- A disreputable scientific journal used generative AI to create bogus papers, using the names of three Japanese researchers without permission in what is thought to be an instance of ...

Of all the mysteries that the massive James Webb Space Telescope has seen so far in the early universe, one of the strangest are objects that astronomers now call "little red dots." Like the ...

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It found that for kids in childcare below 35 to 40 hours a week – or seven to eight hours a day across a five-day week – the more hours they attended childcare, the higher their maths and ...

Artist, writer and actor Brook Tate said he had suffered from a "deep fear of maths" From simple to complex equations, maths can be stressful for anyone who finds it confusing. One artist believes ...

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Known in Ghana as the Maths Queen, Dr Angela Tabiri is the first African to win The Big Internet Math Off competition - quite an achievement for someone who had not initially planned to study ...

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