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The headcounts of both The Witcher 4 and Cyberpunk 2‘s dev teams continue to steadily climb, as the two RPGs inch closer to our fingertips. Meanwhile, CD Projekt have confirmed that their research division are still busy deciding what the mysterious original game codenamed Project Hadar will look like. All of these details, plus some Nintendo Switch stuff we’ve avoided …

Researchers and academics have flocked to Bluesky. Credit: Matteo Della Torre/NurPhoto via Getty Posts about research on Bluesky receive substantially more attention than similar posts on X, formerly called Twitter, according to the first large-scale analysis of science content on Bluesky1. The results suggest that Bluesky users engage with posts more than do users of X. Bluesky has more than …

Getting the shingles vaccine could lower your risk of a heart attack or stroke by as much as 20%, according to the first study of its kind. Shingles is a common condition affecting millions worldwide that causes a painful rash and can lead to serious problems such as deafness, long-lasting pain and blindness. It is more likely to cause serious …

Data sources Life science publications We extracted life science research publications from the parsed PubMed XML database. Trained librarians associate articles indexed in PubMed with MeSH terms, which constitute a controlled vocabulary for the categorization of biomedical research topics. These terms formed the basis for linking publications to specific diseases in our analysis. Previous studies have also used alternative approaches …

It sounds like something out of science fiction: In the late 1950s, the US Army carved a tiny “city” into the Greenland ice sheet, 800 miles from the North Pole. It had living facilities, and scientific labs, and working showers, all powered by one small nuclear reactor. The research base was called “Camp Century,” a Cold War scientific project that …

Warning: This story contains details of violence that may be disturbing to some readers. You can find resources and help for survivors at the U.S. Department of Justice website. More than 40 percent of respondents to a new survey experienced a sexual assault or sexual harassment during recent Antarctic research expeditions, according to the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF). Antarctica …

Researchers developing vaccines to treat cancer have been granted access to one of the UK’s most powerful artificial intelligence (AI) supercomputers. The team at the University of Oxford’s Nuffield Department of Medicine will be allowed to use the device, know as Dawn, for 10,000 hours as part of a government scheme. They will be analysing tens of thousands of data …

Big hands might mean big feet, but it seems long thumbs are linked to large brains – at least in primates. Researchers say the results suggest the brain co-evolved with manual dexterity in such mammals. “We imagine an evolutionary scenario in which a primate or human has become more intelligent, and with that comes the ability to think about action …

The mountain of evidence backing the health perks of the Mediterranean diet—one that highlights plant foods and fish, and de-emphasizes red and processed meats—just grew again. A study using data from more than 5,700 people gathered over 34 years found that the participants who stuck to the Mediterranean diet were less likely to wind up with dementia. But the biggest …

The mesopause is the coldest layer of the planet’s atmosphere, with temperatures that can dip to nearly minus 148 degrees Fahrenheit, according to NASA. Scientists have been eager to learn more about that dynamic part of the atmosphere because it is known to be a “mixing ground where weather patterns from the lower atmosphere transfer energy upward into space, fueling …