The idea that our mind could live on in another form after our physical body dies has been a recurring…
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The search for planets outside our Solar System – exoplanets – is one of the most rapidly growing fields in…
At the close of the 18th century, the Austrian composer Joseph Haydn wrote one of his masterpieces: an oratorio –…
3D-printed medicine could be the future of personalised healthcare, with research now suggesting printed tablets have reached a sufficient quality…
Artificial intelligence (AI) has revolutionized many different industries in recent years. It gained a lot of attention and popularity with the…
Financial services workers, medical students and others working in highly competitive environments are using so-called “smart drugs” to enhance cognitive performance. Do they actually…
Until very recently, if you wanted to know more about a controversial scientific topic – stem cell research, the safety…
Infectious disease outbreaks in African countries are, unfortunately, all too common. Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo or Uganda; Marburg…
The technology to decode our thoughts is drawing ever closer. Neuroscientists at the University of Texas have for the first…
Debates about AI often characterise it as a technology that has come to compete with human intelligence. Indeed, one of…