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Nations are vying to see who can sign up the most countries to their AI safety agreements, with a surprise US announcement threatening to overshadow the UK's declaration

The UK prime minister and US tech mogul are set to discuss the future of artificial intelligence, in a conversation streamed on Musk's X platform. Here are some topics they might touch on

NASA's Lucy spacecraft flew past its first asteroid, Dinkinesh, on 1 November, and the first images have shown that Dinkinesh has a second, even tinier, asteroid orbiting it

The convergence of digital technology and the internet has led to the emergence of complex digital networks utilizing ubiquitous electronic devices such as mobile phones and smart home appliances. As a result, we can acc...

Fusion power startups have attracted considerable attention and investment in the last few years. But the powering up of the world's largest fusion reactor in Japan shows long-term, government-run projects still have a l...

A powerful explosion from the sun briefly opened up an enormous valley on the solar surface that was more than twice as wide as the contiguous U.S. and seven times longer than Earth.

If a rat has walked through a location before, it can imagine that place, with the help of virtual reality. Some now expect all mammals to be capable of such thoughts

Groups of chimpanzees patrol the edges of their territory and pause on hilltops to listen out for rivals, judging whether it is safe to venture further

Rats immersed in a VR world played games that could be won only by using imaginative route planning, scientists report.

For researchers wanting to understand the inner workings of magnetic materials, transmission electron microscopy is an indispensable tool. Because the wavelength of an electron is much shorter than the wavelength of visi...

Speaking at the end of the UK's AI Safety Summit, prime minister Rishi Sunak said that we don't yet understand enough about AI models to regulate them properly, but work to do so must happen faster

UK prime minister Rishi Sunak's much-publicised AI summit at Bletchley Park has come to an end, and the result seems to be a promise to hold more summits. At this rate, legislation will struggle to keep pace with the dev...

The replacement of cow pastures with soya plantations in parts of Brazil has corresponded with an increase in leukaemia deaths among children, possibly due to pesticide exposure

Hundreds of human remains from one burial site hint at a prolonged conflict between Stone Age people, long before the formation of powerful states

A new analysis of a mass grave from Neolithic Spain reveals that the site wasn't a burial ground from a massacre, but of fallen warriors.

Quantum-based systems promise faster computing and stronger encryption for computation and communication systems. These systems can be built on fiber networks involving interconnected nodes which consist of qubits and si...

Black Friday has come early, and this Amazon deal is music to our ears.

Work and play in style with this HP Victus laptop.

A growing number of heavy cannabis users - especially young people - are showing up in emergency rooms with prolonged vomiting due to cannabis hyperemesis syndrome

The recently discovered temple in Mexico's Yucatán peninsula dates between A.D. 1000 and 1200.

Researchers from Lancaster University in the UK have discovered how superfluid helium 3He would feel if you could put your hand into it. Dr. Samuli Autti is the lead author of the research published in Nature Communicati...