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Over the past several decades, many technologists and policy makers have sought out huge, disruptive shifts in thinking in almost every area of scienc...
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At some points in our lives, we all face challenges or setbacks or find ourselves in difficult situations that can ultimately have a profound effect o...
In the world of games, scoring systems establish a framework that provides us with clear challenges, motivation, and ultimately delivers a huge amount...
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Over the last several decades, the world has seen artificial intelligence undergo a rapid transformation. Since its beginnings in the 1950s as specula...
For many of us, consuming or making art – be it listening to music, playing an instrument, reading a book, painting a watercolour or attending a dance...
There’s little doubt that we humans are a deeply social species; in many ways, our interactions with others define the very essence of who we are. But...
Chances are that if you open your bathroom cabinet, many of the medicines you find there were first discovered by studying the chemical processes of t...
Currently, around 40 per cent of children in the UK have been diagnosed with an allergy of some form or another – the most common being food allergies...
It sounds like a theory plucked from the page of a science fiction novel, but according to Enrique Gaztañaga from the University of Portsmouth, our en...
Chances are that when most of us think of spinosaurs our minds will turn to the hulking, predatory sail-backed dinosaur that famously took down a T. R...
How much control do we have over our actions and decisions? For most of us, it’s likely that the answer is that, of course, all of the choices we make...
It’s likely that if any of us step and of our front doors and take a moment to listen to what’s going on around us, we’ll hear the vocalisations of do...
It’s currently thought that around one billion people worldwide aren’t getting enough protein to meet their daily needs. Alongside this, it’s becoming...
Many of us will have experienced changes in our emotional states after failing to get a good night’s sleep. Maybe we find that we lose our temper more...
