What would Earth look like in 25 years? I asked the experts
Solar power stationYaorusheng/Getty Images Things are just a wee bit unstable right now – environmentally and politically – so I decided to call up some experts and find out what…
Solar power stationYaorusheng/Getty Images Things are just a wee bit unstable right now – environmentally and politically – so I decided to call up some experts and find out what…
Inside the DIII-D tokamak fusion reactorRswilcox (CC BY-SA 4.0) A nuclear fusion reaction has overcome two key barriers to operating in a “sweet spot” needed for optimal power production: boosting…
Disinformation fuels conspiracy theories that can be hard to dismantleSkorzewiak/Shutterstock Large language model chatbots like those powering ChatGPT can reduce people’s beliefs in conspiracy theories by debating with them. And…
AI can spot the parasites in stool samplesAntti Suutala/ Lundin et al, 2024, PLOS NTDs, CC-BY 4.0 Artificial intelligence can spot parasitic worm eggs in human faecal samples – including…
Andriy Onufriyenko/Getty Images For Bill Gates, artificial intelligence is the most important invention since the internet or the personal computer. For Google boss Sundar Pichai, it will have a more…
In pure mathematics, very occasionally, breakthroughs arrive like bolts from the blue – the result of such inspired feats of reasoning and creativity that they seem to push the very…
The Quantinuum H2 chipQuantinuum Microsoft and the quantum computing firm Quantinuum claim to have made a quantum computer that has an unprecedented level of reliability. Its ability to correct its…