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…
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The bright, red star Betelgeuse in the constellation Orion has shown some unexpected behaviour. In late 2019 and 2020 it became fainter…
A conflict between the US and China over computer chips – or semiconductors – has been escalating in recent months. In…
Science fiction has always been a tool for processing life on Earth. Norwegian sci-fi expert Karl Kristian Swane Bambini has said that…
Is computational creativity possible? The recent hype around generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools such as ChatGPT, Midjourney, Dall-E and many…
A committee set up by Nasa has examined about 800 reports of unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAPs), or what most of us would call…
ChatGPT is a hot topic at my university, where faculty members are deeply concerned about academic integrity, while administrators urge us…
Claims the US government has secretly retrieved crashed alien spacecraft and their non-human occupants are hardly new. They are firmly…
Fake news is a complex problem and can span text, images and video. For written articles in particular, there are…
Like something out of a spy movie, thermal cameras make it possible to “see” heat by converting infrared radiation into…