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UK AI summit is a 'photo opportunity' not an open ...

The AI Safety Summit, hosted by UK prime minister Rishi Sunak, has been criticised for a lack of div...

Ash from wildfires may fuel the growth of plankton...

Wildfires can deposit large amounts of ash into the oceans, and experiments suggest that this materi...

The best new science fiction books of November 202...

A fresh vision of the Culture universe from Iain M. Banks plus new books from Brandon Sanderson and ...

AIs can guess where Reddit users live and how much...

Large language models such as GPT-4 were able to identify people’s personal information by analysing...

Why is there a shortage of ADHD drugs and what can...

People with ADHD may need to search for their medicines at multiple pharmacies or see their doctor t...

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft is hurtling towards the tin...

The Lucy spacecraft will visit its first of ten asteroids on 1 November – a small rock called Dinkin...

A curious history of famous body parts

Suzie Edge is a medical historian who frequently surprises (and sometimes shocks) her TikTok followe...

With privacy concerns rising, can we teach AI chat...

The way AI systems work means that we can’t easily delete what they have learned. Now, researchers a...

Face masks ward off covid-19, so why are we still ...

The most recent review into the effectiveness of face masks has confirmed that they do help to preve...

UK AI summit: G7 countries agree AI code of conduc...

Ahead of a meeting at Bletchley Park on the future of artificial intelligence hosted by UK prime min...

Flatworms can either regrow lost heads or reproduc...

When flatworms have the ability to regenerate, they lose the option to lay eggs – instead they produ...

Why cannabis smells like skunk – and how that coul...

Researchers recently identified the chemical source of marijuana's distinctive scent. The finding co...

Desert plant collects water from air by excreting ...

An evergreen desert shrub common in the Middle East excretes salt crystals onto its leaves that may ...

Biden executive order: How the US is trying to tam...

US president Joe Biden has announced an executive order that establishes ambitious guidelines on saf...

UK AI summit: Government testing chatbot for tax a...