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AI can predict tipping points for systems from forests to power grids

Combining two neural networks has helped researchers predict potentially disastrous collapses in complex systems, such as financial crashes or power blackouts

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Your pupils change size as you breathe

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Humans

When did human ancestors start walking on two legs?

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Why did humans evolve big brains? A new idea bodes ill for our future

Humans

Why did humans evolve big brains? A new idea bodes ill for our future

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Average facial temperatures of 50-60-year old women ageing slowly (left), as predicted (middle) or fast (right)

Health

The temperature of your face could help diagnose medical conditions

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The Tropical jungle with river and sun beam and foggy in the garden

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How ghost cities in the Amazon are rewriting the story of civilisation

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The hacker turned politician using digital tech to reimagine democracy

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The hacker turned politician using digital tech to reimagine democracy

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A chess board with a chess game being played

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AI can identify the most brilliant and entertaining chess moves

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$1m prize for AI that can solve puzzles that are simple for humans

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$1m prize for AI that can solve puzzles that are simple for humans

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AI can turn text into sign language – but it’s often unintelligible

Researchers have developed an AI model that can translate text into sign language, but experts in Deaf culture and sign language say the translations range from semi-comprehensible to “really unintelligible”

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Driverless cars are mostly safer than humans – but worse at turns

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Did rock art spread from one place or was it invented many times?

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Can Google fix its disastrous new AI search tool?

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What is artificial general intelligence, and is it a useful concept?

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