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Why I'm deeply sceptical about comparisons between humans and machines

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Why I'm deeply sceptical about comparisons between humans and machines

Humans learn very differently to machines, thanks to our biased, malleable memory – and that's a good thing, says Charan Ranganath, director of the Dynamic Memory Lab at the University of California, Davis

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How does astronomy fit into astrophysics – and does it matter?

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How does astronomy fit into astrophysics – and does it matter?

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Life

The 7 most consequential moments in the history of everything

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Dating apps should fix their problems before saddling us with new ones

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Dating apps should fix their problems before saddling us with new ones

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GDKEG6 Oil refinery at twilight

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How the future rise of AI lawyers could force Big Oil to pay up

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Quantum computer circuitry illustration. Conventional computers store information as 'bits', with each transistor holding either a 1 or a 0. Quantum computers use quantum bits, or qubits, which operate according to two principles of quantum physics. One of the principles, supposition, allows a qubit to store a 1 and a 0 at the same time. This means two qubits can hold four values at once. The second principle, entanglement, means that the state of one qubit can depend on the state of another. As you expand the number of qubits, the machine becomes exponentially more powerful.

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Why AI firms should follow the example of quantum computing research

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2SA3JYH Various Artificial Intelligence mobile apps, DeepSeek open-source large language models app on January 28, 2025 in Prague, Czech Republic.

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DeepSeek has burst the AI hype bubble – now all bets are off

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2YJ64RA . Benedetta Cappa Marinetti (Benedetta) (Rome 1897 - Venice 1977) Velocit? di motoscafo, 1919-1924 Oil on canvas, 70 x 110 cm

Society

How futurism took an abrupt right turn in the 20th century

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Why an increasing belief in alien visitations is a real-world problem

Society

Why an increasing belief in alien visitations is a real-world problem

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WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 29: Pro Affirmative Action supporters and and counter protestors shout at each outside of the Supreme Court of the United States on Thursday, June 29, 2023 in Washington, DC. In a 6-3 vote, Supreme Court Justices ruled that race-conscious admissions programs at Harvard and the University of North Carolina are unconstitutional, setting precedent for affirmative action in other universities and colleges. (Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

Society

Building a true meritocracy means removing barriers, not ignoring them

US President Donald Trump has pledged to dismantle diversity, equity and inclusion programmes in government agencies in order to build a “merit-based” society. But psychological research shows that such initiatives can create fairer outcomes, if employed correctly

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Space

These interstellar spaceship designs are wildly impractical

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Environment

Rewild the UK with lynx soon? Not a cat in hell’s chance, sadly

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Mind

The human sense of smell is quite good, and matters more than you know

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Health

Wake up to the bigger picture on how to get a better night’s sleep

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