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Your whole office could be a computer thanks to sculpted Wi-Fi waves

Technology

Your whole office could be a computer thanks to sculpted Wi-Fi waves

Bouncing around specially tailored waves can turn an entire room into an analogue computer, which could help build an energy-efficient artificial intelligence

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Helen O'Neill: The CRISPR genome editing revolution

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Helen O'Neill: The CRISPR genome editing revolution

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Humans

Stone Age people may have ritually cut off their own fingers

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Extinct 'Denisovan' people may have lived on Earth's highest plateau

Life

Extinct 'Denisovan' people may have lived on Earth's highest plateau

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Stone tools hint that our first human ancestors lived all over Africa

Life

Stone tools hint that our first human ancestors lived all over Africa

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Comment

Making AI research classified will harm US science

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The first human farmers continued to forage a wide diet from nature

Humans

The first human farmers continued to forage a wide diet from nature

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A rat and a robot rat

Technology

Rats can make friends with robot rats and will rescue them when stuck

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Technology

Exclusive: UK police wants AI to stop violent crime before it happens

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Health

New techniques may soon make designer babies a reality – are we ready?

As tests that screen embryos for complex traits become available, it's time to decide how to use these ethically – and where to draw the line

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Health

Exclusive: A new test can predict IVF embryos' risk of having a low IQ

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Technology

Nonfacial Portrait review: art fights to save faces and paint over AI

Culture

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An AI apocalypse isn't the problem – technology-driven inequality is

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Humans

The Galapagos of the Indian Ocean: Voyage to a forgotten paradise

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