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AI may blunt our thinking skills – here’s what you can do about it

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AI may blunt our thinking skills – here’s what you can do about it

There is growing evidence that our reliance on generative AI tools is reducing our ability to think clearly and critically, but it doesn’t have to be that way

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AI power use forecast finds the industry far off track to net zero

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AI scientist claimed to do six months of research in just a few hours

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Does the family tree of ancient humans need a drastic rewrite?

Humans

Does the family tree of ancient humans need a drastic rewrite?

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Could a self-monitoring system for criminals replace prisons one day?

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Humans

Neanderthal-human hybrids may have been scourged by a genetic mismatch

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Ancient lead exposure may have influenced how our brains evolved

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Humans

Early hominin had human-like dexterity and gorilla strength

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Humans

Who were the first humans to reach the British Isles?

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An illustration of a scroll being unfurled by two hands, surrounded by Roman columns and wisps of smoke, with a Roman figure in a toga at the centre

Humans

We’re finally reading the secrets of Herculaneum’s lost library

A whole library’s worth of papyri owned by Julius Caesar’s father-in-law were turned to charcoal by the eruption of Vesuvius. Nearly 2000 years later, we can at last read these lost treasures

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Technology

Chatbots work best when you speak to them with formal language

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Humans

Evolution of intelligence in our ancestors may have come at a cost

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Technology

Should we worry AI will create deadly bioweapons? Not yet, but one day

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Health

We now know why a belly button becomes an 'innie'

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