Meta’s Threads platform might not be revolutionary, but it poses a challenge to Twitter
The July 5 launch of Threads, Instagram’s new social media platform, has met with considerable…
How having five friends boosts the adolescent brain – and educational performance
As most parents of teenagers are acutely aware, there comes a time when children start…
How classic psychology warped our view of human nature as cruel and selfish
There are a number of classic experiments and theories that every psychology student learns about,…
Drawing in the sand at the beach? Our ancestors did the same 140,000 years ago
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Asymptomatic COVID-19 is linked to a gene variant that boosts immune memory after exposure to prior seasonal cold viruses
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Eliminating bias in AI may be impossible — a computer scientist explains how to tame it instead
When I asked ChatGPT for a joke about Sicilians the other day, it implied that…
First contact with aliens could end in colonization and genocide if we don’t learn from history
We’re only halfway through 2023, and it feels already like the year of alien contact.…
The hidden cost of the AI boom: social and environmental exploitation
Mainstream conversations about artificial intelligence (AI) have been dominated by a few key concerns, such…
Non-native English speaking scientists work much harder just to keep up, global research reveals
These days it’s necessary to have at least a basic level of English proficiency in…
why it’s worrying that the space tourism sector hasn’t considered the consequences
Humans have a knack for sharing intimate moments in unlikely places, as membership of the…