The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine honoured Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel for their work developing optogenetics – a technique that allows researchers…
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Last week, Australian Federal Police commissioner Krissy Barrett warned that artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots are not a sufficient replacement for human support…
Imagine an artificial intelligence (AI) system that has performed reliably for months. Its recommendations are almost always right, and the…
The cover of a new report on AI from a US museum think tank restyles the Sistine Chapel’s Creation of…
Imagine a company that sells you equipment, invests money in your business, and then rents back what you build with…
The AI doomsday news cycle plays on anxieties about the future. The media has tended to prioritise sensational takes on…
Astronomers have catalogued billions of stars and hundreds of billions of galaxies. We have found thousands of planets orbiting stars. We…
The transformation of the human body has been a recurring concern of science fiction for more than 200 years. It has…
Look up at the night sky with your naked eye, and it may seem like it rarely changes. Yet the…
Earlier this week, OpenAI published a trove of hundreds of mathematical results it claimed could “push the frontier of human knowledge”. Produced largely by…