SpaceX says it wants to deploy an astronomical number of data centres in orbit to supply power for artificial intelligence, ...

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Tech giants are gearing up for a series of potentially bitter legal battles over claims they used copyrighted material in training the latest generation of artificial intelligence ...

Can a single particle have a temperature? It may seem impossible with our standard understanding of temperature, but columnist Jacklin Kwan finds that it’s not exactly ruled out in the quantum realm ...

While pilots are flying in a VR simulation, their brainwave patterns can be fed into an AI model that assesses how challenging they are finding a task and adjusts the difficulty accordingly ...

In the opening to Adrian Tchaikovsky's science fiction novel Alien Clay, the latest read for the New Scientist Book Club, our hero wakes from years of space travel to a terrifying new reality ...

Your organs are constantly talking to each other in ways we’re only beginning to understand. Tapping into these communication ...

The most robust evidence to date shows that people with a type of lung cancer lived longer if they received immunotherapy before 3pm ...

We are getting a clearer sense of where and how often Homo sapiens and Neanderthals interbred, and it turns out the behaviour ...

Ants rely on scent to recognise their comrades, and when they are exposed to common air pollutants, other members of their ...

People with severe covid-19 infections are more than 4 times as likely to later be diagnosed with schizophrenia than people who have not been infected, though the risk of developing the condition is ...

Readers are spoiled for choice when it comes to popular science reading this month, with new titles by major names including ...