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Technology

AI or 鈥榮uper intelligence鈥�? Trump isn鈥檛 the only one who is confused

US President Donald Trump has declared that artificial intelligence should now be called 鈥渟uper intelligence鈥�. Columnist Jacob Aron explains where that term came from and explores whether its many historical meanings apply today

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Physics

Could consciousness be quantum?

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Technology

OpenAI has dumped 722 maths papers 鈥� now it must clean up the mess

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Space

The telescope that could reveal what dark matter and dark energy are

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Technology

I am a top drone pilot in the Ukrainian Army 鈥� this is what it is really like

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Technology

Will the backlash against AI data centres hit quantum computing too?

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Mathematics

Can mathematicians still refuse to use AI at this point?

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Society

Trustworthy science journalism is more essential than ever

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Mind

Can you hack your brain to be ultra-productive?

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CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing technology

Health

Anthropic鈥檚 discovery will, at best, be just another gene-editing tool

The AI company Anthropic has announced that its Claude large language model has discovered a system reminiscent of CRISPR, but that doesn鈥檛 mean the Nobel prizes will start rolling in, says Michael Le Page

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Life

New fossil evidence is reshaping the timeline of Out of Africa

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Environment

How turning electricity directly into food could help save the planet

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Technology

Worried about an AI apocalypse? Here’s how to think about the risk of doom

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Our diet is changing faster than our biology

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