Science & Tech

AGI nightmare: can it really get out of hand? All the real (and dystopian) risks of losing control

From the resignation of an Anthropic researcher to the threat of autonomous hacker attacks and cyber-pandemics: are the risks of ...

Is there a hidden “ocean” 2,900 km below us? Two water-trapping minerals discovered near Earth’s core

An experiment pushes matter to extreme conditions and reveals how two new minerals could hold huge reserves of water near ...

Would social media be better without algorithms? The experiment that could give us back our time

Australia is preparing a law to allow users to deactivate personalized feeds on social media. But will going back to ...

Chemotherapy for children: why it can age healthy tissue by decades

Chemotherapy, which saves lives in childhood cancers, leaves a genetic “signature” on the liver, accelerating mutations in healthy cells. The ...

OpenAI, Anthropic and a poisonous mathematical dispute: who solved one of the “problems of the millennium”?

OpenAI says it has solved the Navier-Stokes problem, one of the great unsolved questions in mathematics. But there is debate ...

Breast cancer: can AI predict the most effective treatments?

An AI model that intuits how cells will respond to drugs could lead to more targeted treatments for triple-negative breast ...

Google’s AI enters the classroom: what help can it give to students (without sending teachers into retirement)?

From Study Notebooks with 3D models and tailor-made quizzes to interactions with Google Classroom and the Khan Academy tutor: Google’s ...

Goodbye response anxiety: apps that send slow messages with “virtual pigeons” are here

Speeds of up to 177 km/h, real-time maps and even the risk of messages being lost: how the apps that ...

Too much night light alters the shape and functioning of the heart

We need darkness for heart health: nights illuminated by artificial lights facilitate alterations that can favor heart failure. Light pollution ...
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