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AI may blunt our thinking skills – here’s what you can do about it

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AI may blunt our thinking skills – here’s what you can do about it

There is growing evidence that our reliance on generative AI tools is reducing our ability to think clearly and critically, but it doesn’t have to be that way

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AI power use forecast finds the industry far off track to net zero

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AI scientist claimed to do six months of research in just a few hours

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Orcas are ganging up on great white sharks to eat their livers

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Could a self-monitoring system for criminals replace prisons one day?

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An illustration of a scroll being unfurled by two hands, surrounded by Roman columns and wisps of smoke, with a Roman figure in a toga at the centre

Humans

We’re finally reading the secrets of Herculaneum’s lost library

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Chatbots work best when you speak to them with formal language

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Life

20 bird species can understand each other’s anti-cuckoo call

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2AGP4K2 FBI Laboratory analysis of Castor Beans used to manufacture the highly poisonous agent Ricin. Ricin (/'ra?s?n/ RY-sin), a lectin (a carbohydrate-binding protein) produced in the seeds of the castor oil plant, Ricinus communis, is a highly potent toxin. A dose of purified ricin powder the size of a few grains of table salt can kill an adult human. The median lethal dose (LD50) of ricin is around 22 micrograms per kilogram of body weight if the exposure is from injection or inhalation (2 milligrams for an average adult).

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Should we worry AI will create deadly bioweapons? Not yet, but one day

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Los Angeles - CIRCA 1985: Author William Gibson poses for a portrait circa 1985 in Oakland, California (Photo by Aaron Rapoport/Corbis/Getty Images)

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Is Neuromancer's cyberpunk dystopia still thrilling in 2025?

When it was first published in 1984, William Gibson's Neuromancer transformed sci-fi and instantly birthed the cyberpunk genre. Ahead of an upcoming TV adaptation, Emily H. Wilson revisits the prophetic novel to see if it stands the test of time

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Life

We will soon be able to talk with other species. Which will be first?

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I'm a cyclist. Will the arrival of robotaxis make my journeys safer?

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NASA and IBM built an AI to predict solar flares before they hit Earth

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Mind-reading AI can turn even imagined speech into spoken words

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