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WHY are we conscious?

Humans

Why are we conscious? The answer lies in other animals’ heads

It’s easy to think human conscious experience is unique, but a better understanding of consciousness’s mysteries comes by tracing it back in the evolutionary tree

Features

A top (dorsal) view of a day 16-19 human embryo

Health

Donated embryo offers rare glimpse of development after implantation

News

Molecular model of the drug Cocaine

Technology

AI can quickly identify structure of drugs designed for ‘legal highs’

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Humans

Our Human Story newsletter: The patterns of domestication

News

AI photo fly through

Video

AI turns 2D images into an explorable 3D world

Video

AI can change a fashion model’s pose and alter their clothes to match

Video

AI can change a fashion model’s pose and alter their clothes to match

Video

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Life

Barn owls make mental maps of their surroundings while they are flying

News

drone flying over a coastline

Technology

EU drones could drop life rafts to migrants in the Mediterranean Sea

News

explorable 3D worlds

Technology

AI can turn a collection of 2D images into an explorable 3D world

News

Woman looking over her shoulder and same woman facing camera

Technology

AI can change a fashion model’s pose and alter their clothes to match

The technology used to create deepfake videos has been applied to fashion models, and can put them in a pose they never actually stood in

News

Space

Steve Chien interview: Why NASA is inventing curious AI for deep space

Features

Humans

Why the ancestors of dogs were our colleagues not friends

Culture

Technology

Artificial insect-inspired ‘brain’ can guide robotic dog through maze

News

Technology

EU votes to restrict AI use in law enforcement while UK rolls it out

Analysis