Science
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AI chatbots fail to diagnose patients by talking with them
Don’t call your favourite AI “doctor” just yet Just_Super/Getty Images Advanced artificial intelligence models score well on professional medical exams…
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Could 2025 be the year we finally start to understand dark energy?
This rainbow pattern shows the structure of 60,000 galaxies as captured by the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument DESI Collaboration/KPNO/NOIRLab We think…
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We must revisit the covid-19 pandemic to prepare for future outbreaks
Yuan Zheng/FeatureChina via AP Images/Alamy Yes, it really has been five years. On 7 January 2020, we published an article…
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Will there be another pandemic after covid-19 and are we prepared?
It has been just over five years since the beginning of covid-19 The coronavirus behind covid-19 has infected most people…
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Flying electric taxis look set to finally take off in 2025
Joby Aviation is developing an electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images Flying taxis…
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People ate lots of foxes and wildcats 10,000 years ago
African wildcats seem to have been part of the human diet in the Levant 10,000 years ago NSP-RF/Alamy About 10,000…
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How DNA in dirt is reshaping our understanding of Stone Age humans
Ancient human remains are rare and don’t necessarily contain DNA Shutterstock/Microgen It was an otherwise ordinary day in 2015 when…
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Blinking may give your brain a micro break during cognitive tasks
Blinking may do more than just keep our eyes healthy gaiamoments/Getty Images Blinking serves a crucial physiological function, by clearing…
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Humanoid robots will march into factories and homes in 2025
The Digit robot made by Agility Robotics is already working in warehouses Agile Robotics Humanoid robots are poised to enter…
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Physicists bend atoms in ‘impossible’ experiment
When particles act like waves, they create a circular diffraction pattern after passing through a small aperture E. R. DEGGINGER/SCIENCE…
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