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Technology The US Army is developing AI missiles that find their own targets Artificial intelligence may soon be deciding who lives or dies. The US Army wants to build smart, cannon-fired missiles that will use AI to select their targets, out of reach of human oversight. The project has raised concerns that the missiles will be a form of lethal autonomous weapon – a technology many people are … News
Humans Graphene inventor Andre Geim: No-deal Brexit would destroy UK science Fanatics who want no-deal Brexit and remainers who refuse to compromise are risking science and the UK’s future in the process, says Nobel prizewinning physicist Andre Geim News
Technology Bubbles show their iridescent beauty as light journeys through "HOW can you not be fascinated by bubbles once you know what they can do?" asks photographer Kym Cox. She has been working with bubbles since 2009 and finds they still give her something new to shoot. The image opposite is the result of a collaboration with Stefan Hutzler, a physicist at Trinity College, … Regulars
Physics Quantum weirdness isn't real – we've just got space and time all wrong A radical new idea erases quantum theory's weird uncertainties – by ripping up all we thought we knew about how the universe works, says physicist Lee Smolin Features
Health The Vagina Bible: Beating bad science on women's sexual health Top Twitter gynaecologist Jennifer Gunter's new book, The Vagina Bible, attacks the bad science and downright ignorance she believes bedevil women's sexual health Culture
Technology How the US almost introduced a universal basic income – 50 years ago NEIL ARMSTRONG, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins returned from humanity's first visit to the moon on 24 July 1969. Two weeks later, US president Richard Nixon took another giant leap by proposing a wholly new way of organising society, one adapted to a world without scarcity, in which citizens were guaranteed regular cash payments. Through … Regulars
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