Just one tiny piece of plastic may be enough to kill a baby turtle |…
Young and vulnerableJordi Chias/Naturepl.com
By Andy Coghlan
Put it down to a combination of inexperience, mistaking plastic for food, or maybe swimming where…
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2030 Cyborg Uprising? | Artificial intelligence
We often hear about the eventual robot uprising, especially when it comes to the advances being made in artificial intelligence. Bright minds like Tesla…
New Scientist Live: why hasn’t the LHC found anything new? | Artificial…
The LHCb detector, deep below GenevaM. Brice, J. Ordan/CERN
By New Scientist staff
Ten years ago today, the CERN’s Large Hadron Collider buried underneath…
The inside story of the vaginal mesh scandal, from top removal surgeon |…
Mesh implants have injured thousands of women. Surgeon Sohier Elneil explains how the crisis happened and why women turned to her for treatment “This is…
Europe to push for one-hour takedown law for terrorist content | Artificial…
The European Union’s executive body is doubling down on its push for platforms to pre-filter the Internet, publishing a proposal today for all websites to…
Programming drones to fly in the face of uncertainty | Artificial…
Companies like Amazon have big ideas for drones that can deliver packages right to your door. But even putting aside the policy issues, programming drones to…
Artificial intelligence helps track down mysterious cosmic radio bursts…
Artificial intelligence is invading many fields, most recently astronomy and the search for intelligent life in the universe, or SETI. Researchers at…
Don’t miss: Apes get ideas, hole becomes art, games lose boundaries |…
A 50th-anniversary screening of Planet of the Apes, the latest installment of Neil deGrasse Tyson’s podcast, and a game where everything is left to the…
Genetic studies intend to help people with autism, not wipe them out |…
Genetic studies involving ten of thousands of people could expand our knowledge on many conditionsAndrew Brookes/Getty
By Simon Baron-Cohen
Genetics plays a…
Is AI funding overheated? Beware the hype about artificial intelligence.…
by James Titcomb In 1964, an American computer scientist named John McCarthy set up a research centre at California’s Stanford University to explore an…