As prominent artificial intelligence (AI) researchers eye limits to the current phase of the technology, a different approach is gaining attention: using living human…
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Back in the 2000s, the American pharmaceutical firm Wyeth was sued by thousands of women who had developed breast cancer after taking…
Self-correction is fundamental to science. One of its most important forms is peer review, when anonymous experts scrutinise research before it…
In a move ripped straight from the kind of science fiction that tends to end badly, scientists have been given…
Imagine turning fruit waste into technology that stores electricity. This would reduce food waste and promote clean energy storage. Postdoctoral…
The search for life beyond Earth is a key driver of modern astronomy and planetary science. The U.S. is building…
About a century ago, scientists were struggling to reconcile what seemed to be a contradiction in Albert Einstein’s theory of…
Picture this: a small audience is quietly ushered into a darkened room. They gasp in awe, as a brilliant night…
In late 2017, a mysterious object tore through our solar system at breakneck speed. Astronomers scrambled to observe the fast moving body…
Astronomers have long been puzzled by two strange phenomena at the heart of our galaxy. First, the gas in the…