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Could a self-monitoring system for criminals replace prisons one day?

Future Chronicles is our regular speculative look at inventions yet to come. In this latest installment, we journey to 2050, when technology had been developed so that criminals could be monitored at home. It led to a drop in crime, writes Rowan Hooper

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Humans

We鈥檙e finally reading the secrets of Herculaneum鈥檚 lost library

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Technology

Chatbots work best when you speak to them with formal language

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Life

20 bird species can understand each other鈥檚 anti-cuckoo call

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2AGP4K2 FBI Laboratory analysis of Castor Beans used to manufacture the highly poisonous agent Ricin. Ricin (/'ra?s?n/ RY-sin), a lectin (a carbohydrate-binding protein) produced in the seeds of the castor oil plant, Ricinus communis, is a highly potent toxin. A dose of purified ricin powder the size of a few grains of table salt can kill an adult human. The median lethal dose (LD50) of ricin is around 22 micrograms per kilogram of body weight if the exposure is from injection or inhalation (2 milligrams for an average adult).

Technology

Should we worry AI will create deadly bioweapons? Not yet, but one day

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Los Angeles - CIRCA 1985: Author William Gibson poses for a portrait circa 1985 in Oakland, California (Photo by Aaron Rapoport/Corbis/Getty Images)

Technology

Is Neuromancer's cyberpunk dystopia still thrilling in 2025?

Culture

Atlantic bottlenose dolphin

Life

We will soon be able to talk with other species. Which will be first?

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Cyclists and commuters make their ways home in evening sunshine at the junction of Fleet Street and Ludgate Hill in the City of London, aka the Square Mile - the capital's financial district, on 4th April 2023, in London, England. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)

Technology

I'm a cyclist. Will the arrival of robotaxis make my journeys safer?

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Technology

NASA and IBM built an AI to predict solar flares before they hit Earth

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Someone with paralysis using the brain-computer interface. The text above is the cued sentence and the text below is what is being decoded in real-time as she imagines speaking the sentence

Mind

Mind-reading AI can turn even imagined speech into spoken words

A brain-computer interface has enabled people with paralysis to turn their thoughts directly into words, requiring less effort than older techniques where a physical attempt at speech had to be made

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How AI poisoning is fighting bots that hoover data without permission

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Chemistry

Super-sticky hydrogel is 10 times stronger than other glues underwater

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'Universal' detector spots AI deepfake videos with record accuracy

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Technology

How invisibility cloaks could make us disappear 鈥 at least from AI

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