One figure widely quoted by pest control companies: There are 1,000 pounds of termites for every human on Earth. If you like big numbers, the 2018 report is delicious reading. Recently ...

An AI system like ChatGPT (GPT-4) is not very sample efficient. It was "trained" on millions of examples of human text, constructing probabilistic "rules" about which combinations of words are most ...

Michael Timothy Bennett receives funding from the Australian government. Elija Perrier receives funding from the Australian government. A new artificial intelligence (AI) model has just achieved ...

Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94143, United ...

Human minibrains in little vials surprised scientists by surviving a stint in low-Earth orbit. US researchers sent lab-grown blobs of human neural tissue known as organoids for a short holiday on the ...

From periods of rapid aging in our 40s and 60s to ancient brains that don’t decompose, here are some of the year’s most intriguing stories about human biology It can sometimes feel like health ...

Musk is so bothered by this, in fact, that he has made it one of his long-term goals to create an interface that allows the human brain to ... our peripheral nervous system process thousands ...

When modern humans arrived in New Guinea roughly 50,000 years ago, they met and mixed with the Denisovans, a now-extinct group of human ancestors who originated in Asia. But after that initial ...

Human rights groups, whistleblowers and foreign officials have said many who entered the prison system did so under trumped-up or false allegations. The regime relied on home raids, checkpoints ...

And like human drivers who ought to be able to drive in Mumbai if they've learnt in London, with a little adjustment, an end-to-end system in theory should be able to drive anywhere without ...

They were part of a pioneer population that eventually died out, making them a ‘lost branch’ of the human family tree. Zooarchaeologist Dr Geoff Smith studied more than a thousand bone fragments found ...

But over the past couple of years new AI tools have emerged that threaten the survival of human civilisation from ... AI has thereby hacked the operating system of our civilisation.