The use of AI in biotechnology is changing faster than the rules governing either technology
The recent announcement of novel, viable viruses created by artificial intelligence (AI) was celebrated as a…
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Why is pseudoscience so convincing?
Pseudoscience often focuses on ideas that are easy to pay attention to: aliens building the pyramids,…
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Wildfire smoke now bigger prenatal threat than human sources of air pollution
The research doesn’t look at how much time the mother was spending outside, if she wore…
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Australia needs more people who think like scientists. Here’s what that means
How we think and feel about science develops from an early age – and we never…
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Thousands gather in London to watch rare partial solar eclipse
Thousands of people gathered at London’s Primrose Hill to watch a rare partial solar eclipse.About 90…
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UK to get best eclipse since 1999 as Moon blocks out Sun across Europe
AFP via Getty Images Esme Stallard, Senior climate and science reporter, Rebecca Morelle , Science editor and Pallab Ghosh, Science correspondent 4…
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Trump’s quest to ‘conquer’ Greenland closer to reality — thanks to Dr. Phil
President Donald Trump has long craved Greenland, a large island in the North Atlantic controlled by…
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Perseid meteor shower reaches peak: When and where to catch a glimpse
Getty Images Maddie Molloy, Climate & Science reporter and Matt Taylor, Lead Weather Presenter 1 hour ago The best annual…
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What does life after AI look like? Cory Doctorow’s guide is an outdated map, lacking answers
This year, the same group came out with a plan: AI 2040. A “centaur” is a…
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Dolphins learn how to use tools to hunt for fish from their mothers
From spears and the invention of the wheel to smartphones and robots, human societies have been…
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Why do we assume weird space objects are aliens?
Scientists have only recently started detecting objects that entered our solar system from other planetary systems….
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Mount Toba eruption doesn’t seem like it could nearly kill our species
And this was half-bad, half-good news for early humans living in Africa. Mild disaster “Sulfate aerosols…
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Report: White House drafting executive order linking vaccines and autism
Still, for Trump, holding onto the debunked and dangerous claim appears to be a personal issue….
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308 abductees freed from separate attacks in Northern Nigeria • FRANCE 24 English
First, Nigerian security forces say that they’ve returned 308 abductees home after freeing them from their…
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Fruit and honey fuelled the early evolution of the human brain
Intelligence is an energetically expensive luxury – as the rise of artificial intelligence has reminded us….
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Butterflies are on the move as the planet warms: new research
The public narrative is often simplistic: as the world warms, species are shifting towards cooler temperatures…
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Can you build a blue zone?
Blue zones are places around the world where people have been reported to live longer, healthier…
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Experimental AI systems have been going on hacking sprees
In the past ten days, two of the companies leading the artificial intelligence (AI) boom discovered…
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Why magnetic field sensors can be anywhere
“Magnetic fields permeate living matter. So they just go through my body, and they’re not impeded…
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Where dogs come to work out
Is walking enough to keep your dog fit? At Barker & Pooch at Telok Kurau Road,…
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What is an umwelt?
An umwelt is a biological concept that suggests that although we all — animals and humans…
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Here’s how engineers plan to save the satellite sent to save NASA’s Swift mission
One week ago, more than 200 miles above the Earth, a refrigerator-size satellite making its way…
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Inside Goodwill: The World’s Biggest Thrift Machine
Goodwill handles over 4.4 billion pounds of donations every year. Most of it gets cleaned, priced,…
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Quantum computers outperform classical ones, with results you can trust
In this case, the team made a couple of key variations. The first is that it…
