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How AI prompting turned writerly description into an everyday skill
Writing prompts to generate images combines two literary tasks at once: the realist description of concrete things and the modernist evocation of atmosphere.
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Secrets of Stonehenge and other ancient sites unlocked for the summer solstice
The Virtual World of Stonehenge has been released to coincide with the summer solstice.
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Can Africa survive the global aid squeeze? Yes, but it will take financial discipline
Africa does not need another grand vision. It needs to treat the vision it already has as a discipline.
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The first case of H5N1 bird flu in Australia has been confirmed. What does this mean?
This is not the moment to call defeat. There is a chance we can stop this infectious virus, this time at least.
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Seal pups and seabird chicks are suffering in extreme weather. How can we protect them?
Marine species are increasingly battling intense storms and heatwaves – four experts explain why this matters.
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Legionnaires’ disease outbreak in Philadelphia in 1976 was mysterious and deadly – 50 years later, scientists know the cause but outbreaks continue
The source was a newly discovered bacterium called Legionella pneumophila that can thrive in household pipes, whirlpools, cooling units and outdoor fountains.
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Freedom of speech takes many forms and they are always cultural
There have always been competing ideas about what it means to have free speech.
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Donald Trump’s Iran ceasefire deal prompts strong feelings and profane language
Critics are calling the agreement a “complete capitulation” by the US.
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Microbes destroyed an ancient pterosaur’s wingbone, then preserved it for 100 million years
What a prehistoric flying reptile’s bone reveals about its diet – and the future of fossil science.
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Why more births now end in caesarean section
As emergency caesarean rates rise, research from Bangladesh and England suggests decisions are shaped by more than clinical need.
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Is ten too young to be criminally responsible? Here’s what the evidence says
Neuroscience provides plenty of evidence for raising the age from ten.
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South African scientists make breakthrough in decoding cancer’s most effective survival strategy
The goal is to develop treatments that can strip away the sugar shield cancer uses to hide from the immune system.