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• The first-ever image of a black hole is now a movie — literally

  Last year, researchers captured the first-ever image of a black hole. Well, that historic image has now been turned into ...

  • Mix

• Quantum and classical computers handle time differently. What does that mean for AI?

  As humans, we take time for granted. We're born into an innate understanding of the passage of events because it's essential to our survival. But AI suffers from no such congenital condition. Robots do not understand the concept of time. State of the art AI systems only understand ...

  • Tristan Greene

• These fossils show our brains evolved slower than our society

  When did something like us first appear on the planet? It turns out there’s remarkably little agreement on this question. Fossils and DNA suggest people looking like us, anatomically modern Homo sapiens, evolved around 300,000 years ago. Surprisingly, archaeology – tools, artifacts, ...

  • The Conversation

• This COVID-19 newsletter was written by a human

  Coronavirus in Context is a weekly newsletter where we bring you facts that matter about the COVID-19 pandemic and the ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Harvard researchers developed an AI to determine how medical treatments affect life spans

  Harvard researchers say the AI accurately forecast the impact of life-extending treatment or diets on mice.

  • Thomas Macaulay

• Could there be life on Venus?

  Earth’s sister planet, Venus, has not been regarded as a high priority in the search for life. Its surface temperature of around 450°C is thought to be hostile to even the hardiest of micro-organisms, and its thick, sulphurous and acidic atmosphere has kept the surface almost completely ...

  • The Conversation

• Neuralink: brain hacking is exceptionally hard, no matter what Elon Musk says

  If thoughts, feelings and other mental activities are nothing more than electrochemical signals flowing around a vast network of brain cells, will connecting these signals with digital electronics allow us to enhance the abilities of our brains? That’s what tech entrepreneur ...

  • The Conversation

• Our understanding of dark matter just became even more warped — literally

  One mystery of dark matter is that it makes up the vast majority of all the matter in the Universe, yet we know surprisingly little about it. This mysterious “something” cannot be seen through light or any other form of electromagnetism — hence the name “dark.” However, ...

  • The Cosmic Companion

• Researchers developed new life expectancy calculator — you'll die Tuesday, jk just look it up

  Would knowing the date of your death influence your actions? It did for Tiberius Caesar. Convinced by the court astrologer ...

  • The Conversation

• How very tiny technologies are helping tackle the global pandemic

  The world-altering coronavirus behind the COVID-19 pandemic is thought to be just 60 nanometres to 120 nanometres in size. ...

  • The Conversation

• How CRISPR is tackling the troubling immune response that's plagued gene therapy until now

  One of the major challenges facing gene therapy — a way to treat disease by replacing a patient’s defective genes with ...

  • The Conversation

• Russia published the results of its COVID-19 vaccine — and they don’t live up to the hype

  President Vladimir Putin recently announced that a team of Russian scientists had developed a COVID-19 vaccine and that it ...

  • The Conversation