The progress however, is far from straightforward. While AI excites people with its potential, it also raises questions about ethics, safety and its impact on human life. Recently, Science and ...

One figure widely quoted by pest control companies: There are 1,000 pounds of termites for every human on Earth. If you like big numbers, the 2018 report is delicious reading. Recently ...

An AI system like ChatGPT (GPT-4) is not very sample efficient. It was "trained" on millions of examples of human text, constructing probabilistic "rules" about which combinations of words are most ...

Michael Timothy Bennett receives funding from the Australian government. Elija Perrier receives funding from the Australian government. A new artificial intelligence (AI) model has just achieved ...

Human minibrains in little vials surprised scientists by surviving a stint in low ... Some remained here on the ground; the others were launched into space to spend a month developing in Earth orbit ...

"Had a bit of a health scare last night, but thankfully it wasn’t a heart attack ... over the shortcomings of Canada’s healthcare system. Adam’s passing was reportedly caused by an aneurysm ...

Human rights groups, whistleblowers and foreign officials have said many who entered the prison system did so under trumped-up or false allegations. The regime relied on home raids, checkpoints ...

And like human drivers who ought to be able to drive in Mumbai if they've learnt in London, with a little adjustment, an end-to-end system in theory should be able to drive anywhere without ...

They were part of a pioneer population that eventually died out, making them a ‘lost branch’ of the human family tree. Zooarchaeologist Dr Geoff Smith studied more than a thousand bone fragments found ...

But over the past couple of years new AI tools have emerged that threaten the survival of human civilisation from ... AI has thereby hacked the operating system of our civilisation.

The human heart beats 60-100 times a minute, without you needing to pay any attention to it. Heart function is controlled by the brain’s autonomic nervous system (the parasympathetic and ...

The startup will be taking on established heart device makers Abbott and Edwards Lifesciences that already have mitral and tricuspid valve treatments on the market. Abbott makes the Mitraclip ...