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Tricks for making AI chatbots break rules are free...
Certain prompts can encourage chatbots such as ChatGPT to ignore the rules that prevent illicit use,...
Russia's Luna 25 moon mission ends in catastrophic...
It has been almost 50 years since Russia - then the Soviet Union - landed safely on the moon. The cr...
3D-printed toilet is so slippery that nothing can ...
You may never need to clean a toilet again, thanks to a new material that keeps the bowl free of any...
Google AI predicts floods four days early in South...
An artificial intelligence from Google can predict floods even in regions with little data on water ...
First cargo ship powered by 'green methanol' has b...
A container ship on its way from South Korea to Denmark is using methanol fuel that reduces emission...
IBM has just made error correction easier for quan...
The difficulty of quantum error correction has been a major stumbling block for quantum computers, b...
Consciousness traced to specific clusters of nerve...
Researchers have mapped how clusters of nerve cells in the brain connect to regulate wakefulness, wh...
Blood test could tell if a fever is due to infecti...
Analysis of gene activity in a blood sample can help determine if a fever is caused by bacterial inf...
AI chatbots become more sycophantic as they get mo...
If a person says they believe an objectively false statement, AIs tend to agree with them – and the ...
Do honeyguides really help honey badgers find bees...
An African bird called the greater honeyguide is said to lead honey badgers to beehives. Despite dec...
Making your phone screen blurry could stop people ...
Thanks to the way human eyes work, a system that makes your phone screen blurry can prevent people r...
Lauren Beukes on why she tackled the multiverse in...
The award-winning author of The Shining Girls on how her 'magpie curiosity' about everything from ne...
Read an extract from Bridge by Lauren Beukes
This tantalising extract is taken from Bridge by Lauren Beukes, the latest pick for our New Scientis...
Astronomers have found a strange new type of extre...
A new type of star may eventually collapse and become a magnetar – a highly magnetic neutron star, w...
Extreme fires caused by ancient humans wiped out C...
A series of catastrophic fires killed off many large mammals in southern California by 13,000 years ...
All of Neptune’s clouds have vanished – it may be ...
Over the past few years, the white clouds that usually shroud Neptune’s surface have disappeared, an...
Black holes may be hurtling around at 10 per cent ...
When two black holes merge to form a single one, it can zoom off at an extraordinary pace – but scie...
Flies riding on a carousel suggest that insects li...
Fruit flies with access to a spinning carousel seem to ride on it for fun in a rare case of play-lik...
