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Sydney extends lockdown for another month as coronavirus cases keep mounting

28th July, 2021

Low vaccination rates have plunged Australia's cities into repeated lockdowns.

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AI helps NASA look at the Sun with new eyes

26th July, 2021

Hindsight is 20/20 -- and so is a telescope equipped with AI.

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Under-30s reluctant to take Covid vaccine cite fertility and side-effect concerns

24th July, 2021

Fears over ‘experimental’ inoculation show that more needs to be done to counter harmful misinformation

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“Something Similar to the AI Revolution May Have Happened at Other Points in the Universe”

24th July, 2021

  “As humans we should be proud of any AI systems we bring to existence, as if they were our children. In just the same way as we educate our kids, we could endow such systems with the blueprint for their future interaction with the world,” observes Harvard astrophysicist, Avi Loeb in an email to […] The post “Something Similar to the AI Revolution May Have Happened at Other P…

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Toxoplasmosis

Can the toxoplasma gondii parasite change our personalities, behaviours and who we're attracted to?

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Coronavirus

The disease COVID-19, caused coronavirus, was thought to originate from a seafood market in China, and be 10,000 years old... but it may come from elsewhere and be millions of years older.

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Bats and Ebola

Ebola is one of the most contagious and dangerous diseases, but between outbreaks the disease must be hiding somewhere. Some suspect bats, but is this really true?

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Animal communication

Animals certainly communicate – some using sounds, and others using body language, pheromones or even electricity. But does any of this actually constitute language?

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Emotions

Emotions are a vital part of society, but there are still plenty of mysteries surrounding them – from what they are for to whether it will be possible, or desirable, to create AI that experiences them.

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The captive shark

We still don’t know how to engineer truly suitable shark tanks for the great white, used to travelling hundreds of kilometres daily. Large sharks have large appetites, are fussy, and kill everything.

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