Science, Technology and Innovation
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China’s AI satellites can track US warships in real time around the world: Report
Using artificial intelligence, a Chinese remote sensing satellite automatically detected the USS Harry S. Truman’s exact coordinates and transferred that…
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Climate change: Don’t let doom win, project tells worriers
At the opening in Norwich, students told BBC News they felt hopelessness, anger and despair about climate change. Georgina Rannard…
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Studying how people spend their time reveals how societies differ and change over time
Behind this simple and descriptive name lies a body of diverse research that has advanced understanding on many contemporary social…
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How high-profile scientists felt tricked by group denying climate change
The events were organised by the Creative Society, an international activist group that denies global warming is being caused by…
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Developing countries are being left behind in the AI race – and that’s a problem for all of us
It powers facial recognition in smartphones and computers, translation between foreign languages, systems which filter spam emails and identify toxic content on social media, and can…
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Southern Africa storms fuelled by climate change – study
Analysis from the World Weather Attribution group also showed that such extreme rainfall was more common now. BBC The results…
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Climate change: Scientists race to finish key IPCC report
Members of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change are likely to advise a rapid shift from fossil fuels over the…
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Climate change: Wind and solar reach milestone as demand surges
Fifty countries get more than a tenth of their power from wind and solar sources, according to research from Ember,…
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China’s Zhurong Mars rover finds hints landscape was shaped by water
China’s Zhurong Mars rover landed at Utopia Planitia – a large plain in the northern lowlands of the planet – back…
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Unite against climate change – Ukraine scientist
Dr Svitlana Krakovska, who is a member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), spoke to me on Zoom…
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Future evolution: from looks to brains and personality, how will humans change in the next 10,000 years?
READER QUESTION: If humans don’t die out in a climate apocalypse or asteroid impact in the next 10,000 years, are we…
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The big idea: how can we adapt to life with rising seas?
We have passed the point of no return: rising seas will soon directly affect hundreds of millions of people around…
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Nuclear fusion heat record a ‘huge step’ in quest for new energy source
The prospect of harnessing the power of the stars has moved a step closer to reality after scientists set a…
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Question Time showed that you can’t counter anti-vax myths with cold reason alone
How do you react when someone politely but firmly tells you that you’re talking nonsense about something that’s important to…
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Here’s why misinformation is a smaller problem than you think
In this telling, claims spread by internet crackpots are amplified by partisan news networks and social media to the point…
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Australia’s proud history of free medical care is at stake
COVID-19 is starting to play out like a real life version of The Hunger Games. When the decision was made to…
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