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OpenAI's ChatGPT labelled text samples used in AI training with more accuracy than people did. The approach could automate some of the human labour involved in AI development

Peloton is still new to the rowing machine game, but can it topple Hydrow's all-conquering smart machine?

[tbc] The record for the maximum human lifespan has stayed unbroken since the 1990s but that might change, according to a new way of analysing mortality records

What does quantum mechanics, the most successful theory ever proposed by physics, teach us about reality? The starting point for most philosophers of physics is that quantum mechanics must somehow provide a description o...

Researchers have discovered a vast cranium collection that was likely left as an offering to Ramesses II, a much-loved pharaoh who died around 1,000 years before the skulls were embalmed.

Astronomers used gravitational lensing and supercomputers to identify the colossal black hole, which is among the largest ever found.

Carbon emissions within the next 50 years could lead to a tipping point where large parts of the Greenland ice sheet melt over the next 10,000 years

Human longevity records may be broken in the next few decades, a new modeling study suggests.

Sarah Hart's engaging book about how central maths is to literature by authors from George Eliot to Georges Perec is a homage to both subjects

These images from a companion book to David Attenborough's new documentary series celebrate the wildlife of Britain and Ireland

It would be the ultimate in personalised medicine: a digital version of your body, which doctors could use to predict what diseases might befall you and your future health. A new book from Peter Coveney and Roger Highfie...

Poor diet is the biggest cause of avoidable illness and premature death in high-income countries. Our food system is broken, say Henry Dimbleby and Jemima Lewis

Carl Sagan's novel Contact, in which Ellie Arroway searches for alien intelligence, has been an inspiration and a guide, says Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

An object once thought to be a radio galaxy is actually an active black hole that changed angles to point directly at Earth, new research suggests.

Nuclear physicists may have finally pinpointed where in the proton a large fraction of its mass resides. A recent experiment carried out at the U.S. Department of Energy's Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility h...

Pain associated with fibromyalgia may put patients at risk of developing opioid use disorder, a new study reports.

Researchers have determined the cause of an unusual behavior in funnel weaving spiders that involves the females curling up as if they're dead before having sex.

In the past two decades, death rates from drug overdoses have dramatically increased among adults 65 years and older living in the US

An experiment that probed particles called gluons, which contain most of the mass of a proton, has revealed that a proton's radius alters depending on whether you look at the particle's charge or mass

Researchers have tweaked structures made by bacteria so that they can target human cells and inject proteins into them, a trick that could lead to targeted medical treatments

A pair of chemists at Michigan State University has observed the piezoelectric effect in liquids for the first time. In their paper published in The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, Md. Iqbal Hossain and G. J. Blan...

A dog's behavioral functions are strong predictors of how its owners treat them.