If the systems sending our food to market are just overseen by machines, then there’s going to be issues that could result in a food crisis.
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Straw bales are a cheap building materials and they are great for insulation.
Discovering new drugs and ultra-secure communication are all possible offshoots.
Will the UK’s new Cyber Action Plan staunch the flow of attacks? Other countries are leading the way in cyber-defence strategies.
It’s a common misperception that autistic people are always unemotional.
The starry skies we can see from the UK are being limited all the time by the glare of light pollution.
Humans and birds both have an underappreciated sense of smell.
Orwell argued that you don’t have to be a scientist to think more scientifically.
Researchers are wondering whether the AIs have developed capabilities they weren’t programmed with.
Medals can be won and lost by hundredths of seconds as athletes sprint away from the starting block.
The first in a new series dedicated to little-known but highly influential scientists.
We may owe our existence to hot blobs of rock in the Earth’s interior.
In the UK, filming someone in public – even covertly – is not automatically unlawful.
Gateway is a planned outpost in lunar orbit, but can it survive a current re-think of the Nasa-led Artemis programme?
Deep beneath the Rockies, a huge slab of crust ‘dripped’ into the mantle. It changed America forever.
Evolution has created plants with the power to kill and heal.
Iran is struggling with a massive water crisis, this is a global phenomenom.
It’s a common misconception that facial recognition technology captures and stores an image of your face.
Policymakers have generally been extremely slow to do anything about the problem.
Second-guessing yourself? Here’s how it can hurt (and at times help) your confidence.
Wildfire has been an important part of the Earth system for more than 400 million years.
Four centuries on, scientists are still debating whether the catastrophic flood of 1607 was driven by a storm surge or a tsunami.
Physicists long believed time was a basic feature of the universe. But it may just emerge from cosmic information.
Poor usability feels unforgivable for a company built on founder Steve Jobs’ mantra: ‘It works like magic’.
Lifelong plasticity is a core principle of neuroscience, yet it operates within real limits shaped by effort, stress and ageing.