Some researchers worry that if AI systems become conscious and people neglect or treat them poorly, they might suffer.Credit: Pol Cartie/Sipa/Alamy The rapid evolution of artificial intelligence (AI) has brought
After weeks of deadly demonstrations that toppled Bangladesh’s autocratic government in August, the students who led the revolution had one demand: invite Nobel Peace prizewinning economist Muhammad Yunus to lead
Evolutionary geneticist Mary-Claire King did not anticipate the impact of her discovery.Credit: Rina Castelnuovo/New York Times/Redux/eyevine When Mary-Claire King embarked on a painstaking 17-year-long hunt for a gene linked to
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DNA fragments extracted from archaeological human remains can be sequenced to identify the microorganisms that caused disease.Credit: Microgen/Getty Over the past ten years or so, investigations of degraded or ‘ancient’
Scientists have discovered the strongest evidence yet that healthy vertebrates can have brain microbiomes. Samuel Velasco / Quanta Magazine The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Bacteria are in, around