Huge online Trolley Problem survey reveals people's cultural bias
24 October 2018
A survey posed ethical dilemmas to millions of people to help develop self-driving cars, but some worry the results could bake our biases into new technology
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The BepiColombo spacecraft is on its way to Mercury
24 October 2018
The BepiColombo spacecraft has begun its 7-year journey to Mercury, where it will orbit and investigate the many mysteries of Mercury
Nobel laureates sign letter expressing Brexit concerns
24 October 2018
Leading scientists from across Europe have written to UK and EU leaders, urging them to agree a Brexit deal that preserves scientific cooperation
President Trump says the US will pull out of a nuclear treaty
24 October 2018
Donald Trump said this week that the US will pull out of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, saying both Russia and China possess the missiles it bans
Driving a car in the city should be the new smoking
24 October 2018
Banning cars from city centres used to be unthinkable – but evidence of the harms they do, and the huge benefits of getting rid of them, mean we should think it
Trump pulling the US out of a nuclear treaty is anything but smart
24 October 2018
Ripping up the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces Treaty will spur a debilitating and dangerous arms race at a time the world can least afford it
Banning cars in major cities would rapidly improve millions of lives
24 October 2018
Cities are starting to experiment with banning cars from their streets and the benefits to health and well-being could be enormous
AI makes new video games by watching people play Super Mario and Kirby
24 October 2018
An artificial intelligence has taught itself the basics of video game design by watching people play classic games and is now generating new ones of its own
Inside the European Union's high-tech nerve agent attack simulation
24 October 2018
A large simulation of a nerve agent attack last week tested a suite of advanced tools for diagnosing, treating and containing chemical and biological incidents
Weird rocks in Australia are a missing piece of the Grand Canyon
24 October 2018
Some rocks in Tasmania, Australia, look out of place. Now an analysis suggests they were once part of the rocks that form the Grand Canyon in the US
