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With a new book from the late primatologist Frans de Waal and a deep dive into artificial intelligence from New York Times ...

SpaceX’s changing priorities, the war in Ukraine and a lack of competitors are all causing a launch crisis that might last ...

A small hoard of medieval English coins found near the Vatican in Rome suggests that early English residents held a ...

Australia’s national health website has been hacked by an OpenAI agent. It was able to access non-public files and is the first publicly revealed case of an AI agent breaching the defences of a ...

There’s no question AI has transformed the field of mathematics in the past few months. Columnist Jacob Aron wonders if it will soon be impossible to be an AI refusenik and continue working in the fie ...

The first complete design for a quantum grandfather clock uses a single atom, tiny mirrors and light. Building it could help our understanding of what makes any clock accurate in the quantum realm and ...

Does astrology work? No, according to a detailed assessment of 152 astrologers that found their predictions were not only no better than random guessing, but also rarely agreed with each other. There ...

Tirzepatide, sold as Mounjaro and Zepbound, is our most potent weight-loss drug, but it can be made even more effective when ...

A subtle change in household power habits could eliminate the need to build new gas power plants, say researchers studying ...