Searching for a female partner for the world’s ‘loneliest’ plant
Map from drone mission search for the Encephalartos Woodii in the Ngoye Forest in South Africa. © C-LAB, CC BY-NC“Surely...
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Supreme Court justices secretly recorded – the legal issues and what they mean for the rest of us
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito Jr., left, and his wife, Martha-Ann Alito, photographed in 2018. AP Photo/Pablo Martinez MonsivaisPosing as...
Microrobots made of algae carry chemo directly to lung tumors, improving cancer treatment
Part algae, part red blood cell, these microrobots can travel to hard-to-reach tumors deep in the lungs. From Zhang et...
Google’s use of AI to power search shows its problematic approach to organizing information
Google's mission is to "organize the world's information," and it's now using AI to do so. (Shutterstock)From government documents to...
Tech solutions to limit kids’ access to social media are fraught with problems, including privacy risks
Ground Picture/ShutterstockA campaign to block children’s access to social media to limit online harms and unhealthy internet use is picking...
Deepfakes threaten upcoming elections, but ‘responsible AI’ could help filter them out before they reach us
Thousands of democrat voters received calls from what sounded like Joe Biden. It was a deepfake. Jonah Elkowitz / ShutterstockEarlier...
AI search answers are the fast food of your information diet – convenient and tasty, but no substitute for good nutrition
Fast and yummy is often less than healthy. Zinkevych/iStock via Getty ImagesIf you have used Google lately and been lucky...
What toilet paper and game shows can teach us about the spread of epidemics
Su San Lee / UnsplashHow can we explain and predict human behaviour? Are mathematics and probability up to the task,...
Why the future of democracy could depend on your group chats
Is your social media group a budding democracy or someone's fiefdom? John Trumbull's painting, Declaration of Independence, plus emoticonsI became...
Human culture is changing too fast for evolution to catch up – here’s how it may affect you
frank60/ShutterstockResearch is showing that many of our contemporary problems, such as the rising prevalence of mental health issues, are emerging...
