The stories we tell have the power to shape our future
7 June 2017
Stories about a better future can help break the dominance of the story that says you’re screwed, says legendary science fiction writer Kim Stanley Robinson
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Brain images display the beauty and complexity of consciousness
7 June 2017
Neuroscientist-turned-artist Greg Dunn created these amazing images by turning information about how the brain processes information into etched pieces of art
Our species may be 150,000 years older than we thought
7 June 2017
New fossil bones and tools from Morocco show that the familiar face of Homo sapiens was present in Africa as early as 350,000 years ago
Automatic sign language translators turn signing into text
2 June 2017
Translation devices are being put to work in places like banks to help deaf people talk to non-signers
How to combat the dark Facebook ads aiming to swing UK voters
1 June 2017
Targeted advertising is casting a cloud over the UK election, but it wouldn’t be hard to bring this shadowy area into the light, if politicians were willing
Photos of human faces reassembled from monkeys’ brain signals
1 June 2017
Cracking the code on how the brain is able to compute so many different kinds of faces has made it possible to recreate the faces shown to monkeys
Brain switch in voles makes them fall in love at first sight
31 May 2017
Through the activation of brain circuits with light, female voles were tricked into selecting specific partners
AI will be able to beat us at everything by 2060, say experts
31 May 2017
A survey of more than 350 artificial intelligence researchers predicts how long it will take for machines to beat us at all tasks
