Research shows that many of our contemporary problems, such as the rising prevalence of mental health issues, are emerging from rapid technological…
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The artificial intelligence (AI) pioneer Geoffrey Hinton recently resigned from Google, warning of the dangers of the technology “becoming more intelligent than…
Most species are transitory. They go extinct, branch into new species or change over time due to random mutations and…
November 15 2022 marks a milestone for our species, as the global population hits 8 billion. Just 70 years ago, within…
The Nobel prize in physiology or medicine for 2022 has been awarded to Svante Pääbo from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary…
The timing and intensity of the seasons shapes life all around us, including tool use by birds, the evolutionary diversification of giraffes, and the behaviour of…
An analysis of the genetic material in the ocean has identified thousands of previously unknown RNA viruses and doubled the…
Many people think of privacy as a modern invention, an anomaly made possible by the rise of urbanization. If that were the case,…
It’s been suggested that an advance party of robots will be needed if humans are ever to settle on other…
Creeping up the smartphone success ladder, Huawei is now one of the most well-known smartphone manufacturers in the world. This…