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A secret message was left on the parachute of the Mars Perseverance Rover. Now you can code your own message.

A secret message was left on the parachute of the Mars Perseverance Rover. Now you can code your own message.

Historians explain what findings made them go ‘wait, wut?’ in the archives they explore for their research.

An artificial-intelligence (AI) chatbot can write such convincing fake research-paper abstracts that scientists are often unable to spot them.

“Singing” ice, a seal that sounds like it is in space, and a seismic airgun thundering like a bomb are some of the noises released by two marine acoustic labs.

Tardigrades (aka ‘water bears’), are eight-legged segmented micro-animals that grow up to 0.5mm long. Watch how they walk.

“Tortured phrases” — are probably the result of automated translation or software that attempts to disguise plagiarism.

Activities that combine mathematics and craft (think ‘origami dodecahedron’ and ‘crocheting a hyperbolic plane’).

This intellectual property and commercialisation training has been created for university researchers, staff and students.
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