China is leading research in nearly 90% of the crucial technologies that “significantly enhance, or pose risks to, a ...

At trade association TechUK’s ninth annual Digital Ethics Summit, public officials, industry figures and civil society groups met to discuss the ethical challenges associated with assuring AI systems, ...

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Though there were setbacks on climate change and funding for science this year, there was still plenty of amazing discoveries ...

University of Iowa researchers have discovered a method to "purify" photons, an advance that could make optical quantum ...

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The human use of fire, attested by evidence from Africa, goes back around 1.6m years. But, hitherto, the oldest signs of ...

An international team of astronomers, including researchers from the University of Michigan, has captured unprecedented ...