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Google has said schools can’t have access to its search engine without AI, even in schools where AI use is being banned.

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A close examination of a frequently visited cave wall in Spain has revealed a spectacular assembly of rock art engravings ...

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George Steinmetz’s image, which has just won him the Drone Photographer of the Year award, shows ship breakers in Bangladesh ...

Denis Villeneuve’s first (and probably best) foray into science fiction, Arrival, was released 10 years ago this month. It ...

As a young woman, Anna Lembke believed her fate was in her hands. A brilliant student, she graduated with honours from Yale ...

This question was posed as part of New Scientist’s Last Word series, in which readers give scientific answers to each other’s ...

Feedback notes with weary inevitability that a 50th anniversary edition of Richard Dawkins's classic work features a ...

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