The idea of ‘biological agency’ — that life devises its own goals and behaves accordingly — complicates our understanding of ...

When Dolly the sheep – the first cloned mammal – was born 30 years ago, she became one of the most famous animals in science ...

Visitors to the Fernando de Noronha archipelago, located about 340 miles (545 kilometers) off the coast of Pernambuco in ...

Ancient deep-sea organisms suggest movement, sexual reproduction, and complex animal life began earlier than previously thought.

First, harmful genetic mutations that manifest themselves when we're elderly aren't being weeded out by evolution – at that ...

Correspondence to Elizabeth Chloe Romanis, Centre for Social Ethics and Policy, School of Law, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, UK; elizabeth.romanis{at}manchester.ac.uk In 2017, a ...

Forget dirty nappies. In Silicon Valley, there’s increasing chatter about virtual offspring A few months ago, an AI researcher from Europe attended a dinner party in Silicon Valley. During one of the ...

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You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. OpenAI wants you to know how good its latest image generator is —and it has a few fake screenshots and ...

The advancement of artificial reproductive technologies (ART) has outpaced many existing legal and ethical frameworks, challenging foundational notions of parenthood, consent, and the temporality of ...

AI hallucinations are one of the most serious challenges facing generative AI today. These errors go far beyond minor factual mistakes. In real-world deployments, hallucinations have led to incorrect ...