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Prof Geoffrey Hinton says the technology is developing faster than he expected and needs government regulation Artificial intelligence could wipe out the human race within the next decade ...

But all of that is outweighed by the plastic, concrete and other material that humans have produced in the last century alone in the form of everything from roads and skyscrapers to cars ...

Let’s dive into it. Room temperature typically refers to a range of temperatures considered comfortable for humans. According to the American Heritage Dictionary, it falls between 20–22 °C ...

While one would be hard-pressed to find virtually any similarities between ants and humans, the two species seem to share an unusual ability despite their seemingly unbridgeable differences—they ...

A team studying the group behavior of ants has found that, in the right circumstances, ants can outsmart humans in collective problem-solving tasks. Researchers from the Weizmann Institute of ...

The cold season is in full swing, but are you taking the best remedy for your cold of flu? A survey last week revealed that more than 56 cough and cold treatments cause dangerous drowsiness for ...

Elija Perrier receives funding from the Australian government. A new artificial intelligence (AI) model has just achieved human-level results on a test designed to measure “general intelligence”.

Teleoperated robots at scale, even if years away, could mean a seismic shift in how we think about labor and automation. This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on ...

Not so. It’s astounding that not one, but at least five other species of humans were at some point sharing this pale blue dot of ours. These humans didn’t appear out of the ether. We all trace ...

She has covered everything from ancient Egyptian temples to exciting medical breakthroughs, but she particularly enjoys writing about wildlife, anthropology and the wonders of the human mind.