Alastair Reynolds: An exclusive short story for New Scientist
13 December 2023
Lottie and the River is a moving vision of the future from astrophysicist turned award-winning science fiction author Alastair Reynolds
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Supercomputer that simulates entire human brain will switch on in 2024
12 December 2023
A neuromorphic supercomputer called DeepSouth will be capable of 228 trillion synaptic operations per second, which is on par with the estimated number of operations in the human brain
Robotic mouse with flexible spine moves with greater speed and agility
6 December 2023
Most robots lack a flexible spine, so researchers created a 3D-printed mouse with the ability to bend its back and found that it could move faster
‘Insect-eye’ compass can navigate by the sun even on a cloudy day
27 November 2023
By mimicking how some insects use polarised light to navigate, a light-detecting compass can tell where magnetic north is even if clouds are covering the sun
Drone delivers defibrillators for cardiac arrest faster than ambulance
22 November 2023
People who have gone into cardiac arrest can get treatment faster if a drone delivers a defibrillator, but there needs to be someone nearby trained in CPR, shows a trial in Sweden
How the US and China talking AI safety could reduce nuclear war risk
16 November 2023
At a meeting between US president Biden and China president Xi, there was agreement on the need for more US-China government talks on AI safety
Ukrainian AI attack drones may be killing without human oversight
13 October 2023
Ukraine is using drones equipped with artificial intelligence that can identify and attack targets without any human control, in the first battlefield use of autonomous weapons or "killer robots"
The Amazon may contain thousands of undiscovered ancient structures
5 October 2023
Archaeological surveys have uncovered earthworks built by pre-Columbian societies across the Amazon, suggesting the rainforest isn't as pristine as we once thought
The Creator review: A mishmash of science fiction ideas
4 October 2023
Set during a futuristic war between humans and artificial intelligence, The Creator is nothing if not spectacular. Shame it is cobbled together from the tropes of other science fiction movies, says Simon Ings
NASA’s UFO task force has released its final report – it’s not aliens
14 September 2023
An independent task force formed by NASA to look into unidentified anomalous phenomena found no evidence of alien craft, and suggests that if we want to find proof of visitors we need better data
