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When it comes to crime, you can't algorithm your way to safety

Technology

When it comes to crime, you can't algorithm your way to safety

There are serious issues with new proposals to use artificial intelligence to predict future crimes, says Yu Xiong, chair of the advisory board to the UK's All-Party Parliamentary Group on the Metaverse and Web 3.0

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Life

Is the fungal science in The Last of Us going off the rails?

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Life

What if we could experience life as another species?

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Don't ban kids from social media; create a site that works for them

Society

Don't ban kids from social media; create a site that works for them

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Mind

Science is a Pandora's box – but we should open it anyway

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Life

England has just given the thumbs up to gene-edited plants. Hooray!

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Society

Does science have a future in the US?

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Let's remember that extraordinary claims need extraordinary evidence

Life

Let's remember that extraordinary claims need extraordinary evidence

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We may soon be able to hold fossil fuel companies to account

Environment

We may soon be able to hold fossil fuel companies to account

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Mind

The supplement that really can improve your brain health

Most supplements that claim to help your brain have never been thoroughly tested, but one has convinced even the most discerning scientists of its worth, finds columnist Helen Thomson

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Environment

Mining the Arctic's precious resources is a fool's errand

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Environment

Where is the TV drama to move the dial on climate change?

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Environment

Are ordinary people fighting a losing battle to go green?

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Space

Claims of alien life are overhyped – and miss the real accomplishment

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