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Autonomous driving technology needs to be able to think and behave more like a human.
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The human brain uses up 20% of the energy we consume.
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Inflammation could be the missing puzzle piece.
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Discussions about potential bans highlight the tension between Western countries and China over the app.
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Learning about the world from live events is the next step for AI.
As online shopping increases over the festive period, so does the risk of cyber-scams.
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Cyber-scams tend to ramp up at this time of year, with criminals and scammers eager to exploit people’s generosity and excitement.
Great tits are familiar visitors to gardens.
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Research shows providing food for birds not only stops them going hungry, it may help them fight off infection too.
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A Japanese spacecraft is expected to reach Martian orbit in 2025 to collect material from the surface of the moon Phobos before returning to Earth by 2029.
Both homes and businesses in rural areas struggled with digital connectivity during the pandemic.
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New research reveals the digital divide that was exposed by the COVID pandemic.
A still from footage showing Unidentified Aerial Phenomena.
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Several scientific projects are aiming to investigate UFO sightings.
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Technology is changing our perception of what time is for.
Bosphorus, by artist Refik Anadol, incorporates machine learning: a type of AI.
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Artists have embraced AI despite the risks to them, educators could learn from their example.
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Previous searches for extraterrestrial life have included only the radio band above 600 MHz, leaving lower frequencies virtually unexplored.
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Rats are well known to cause problems for humans. But we need a new approach to our relationship with them.
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Study on antisemitic conspiracy theories shows they can make groups turn inwards for support and more fearful of others.
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Mystery has surrounded the Q* project that OpenAI has been working on.
Steel production in an electric arc furnace.
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Electric arc furnaces can use up to 100% scrap steel as its raw material, resulting in a significant reduction in emissions.
Sam Altman was fired and then reinstated as CEO of OpenAI.
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The OpenAI sacking affair highlights ongoing debates over the safety and misuse of AI.
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They have properties that make them essential for many products.
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If we lived in a cosmic area with below average density, it would explain recent contradictory measurements of the universe’s expansion.
A Red Cross vehicle believed to be carrying hostages heads out of Gaza.
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One Dutch study found that a third of ex-hostages were still suffering from PTSD nine years after the event.
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If you’re worried someone has joined a high-demand group, it’s important not to shame or belittle them.
The five thylacine skins Morton Allport sent to the University Museum of Zoology Cambridge in 1869 and 1871.
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New research shows the uncomfortable and shocking truth behind a revered scientist’s reputation.
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Communication is a two-way street.
Visualising wealth and poverty through AI.
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Researchers fed an advanced AI algorithm with satellite photographs to see if it could identify areas of poverty and it interpreted the data through abstract images.