The study of exoplanets, worlds which orbit stars other than our sun, is currently being transformed by the new James Webb…
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In early October, the Pew Research Center released a report called “The Role of Alternative Social Media in the News…
In the 2002 movie Minority Report (based on a short story by Philip K Dick), director Steven Spielberg imagined a future in…
According to Mark Zuckerberg, the “metaverse” – which the Meta founder describes as “an embodied internet, where instead of just viewing content…
How would an artificial intelligence (AI) decide what to do? One common approach in AI research is called “reinforcement learning”.…
Virgin Orbit, a US company which provides launch services for satellites, has announced that the first orbital space mission from…
Unlike the carefully scripted dialogue found in most books and movies, the language of everyday interaction tends to be messy…
The big idea A new type of material can learn and improve its ability to deal with unexpected forces thanks…
In the UK, a quarter of people who take their own lives were in contact with a health professional the previous week,…
You might suppose Hollywood is good at predicting the future. Indeed, Robert Wallace, head of the CIA’s Office of Technical…