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Gene editing crops to be colourful could aid weeding, say scientists Wed 17 Apr 2024 16.00 BST Genetically engineering crops to be colourful could help farmers produce food without pesticides, as it would make it easier to spot weeds, scientists have said. This will be increasingly important as har...

Record 3.7m workers in England will have major illness by 2040, study finds Wed 17 Apr 2024 06.00 BST A record 3.7 million workers in England will have a major illness by 2040, according to research. On current trends, 700,000 more working-age adults will be living with high healthcare needs or sub...

AI now beats humans at basic tasks — new benchmarks are needed, says major report 15 April 2024 Artificial intelligence (AI) systems, such as the chatbot ChatGPT, have become so advanced that they now very nearly match or exceed human performance in tasks including reading comprehension, image clas...

New study appearing in IOP Science. ----- Analyzing warp drive spacetimes with Warp Factory Published 5 April 2024 • © 2024 IOP Publishing Ltd The field of warp research has been dominated by analytical methods to investigate potential solutions. However, these approaches often favor simple metric f...

I've almost finished The Coming Wave , by Mustafa Suleyman (co-founder of DeepMind). It's a great overview of the ethics surrounding AI. It's been a while since I read any fiction, and I'd like to become engrossed in some futuristic story at bedtime, so I'm thinking of Surface Detail by the late Iai...

Ladders have been built in the Forest of Dean for dormice to get around the forest. 16 hours ago Mini rope bridges have been installed in one of England's ancient forests to help hazel dormice travel safely between treetops. Two 20m-long bridges have been built over a track in the Forest of Dean. T...