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Octopuses fall for ‘rubber hand’ illusion
A new study demonstrates that octopuses experience a sense of body ownership, as the rubber hand illusion can trick them into believing a fake arm is part of their own body.
Five reasons why driverless cars probably won’t take over your street any time soon
Karolis Kavolelis/Shutterstock Seyed Toliyat, University of Stirling The UK government has launched a consultation on driverless cars, ahead…
Study: AI assisted in over 13% of 2024 science papers
An analysis of vocabulary trends in 15 million scientific abstracts suggests large language models have had an unprecedented impact on academic writing, influencing at least 13.5% of papers published in 2024.
AI helps decipher lost Babylonian hymn praising ancient city
At a Glance Researchers have unveiled a previously unknown Babylonian hymn, lost to history for millennia, that offers…
Who wrote the Bible? A new AI model offers statistical clues
A new AI tool reveals the linguistic fingerprints of the Bible’s anonymous authors, offering a robust, data-driven approach to solving one of history's oldest literary mysteries.
AI helps scientists clock spin of Milky Way’s supermassive black hole
By analyzing telescope data with a custom-built AI, scientists have discovered that the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way is spinning at nearly its maximum possible speed.
Could we ever decipher an alien language? Uncovering how AI communicates may be the key
AlexDreamliner/Shutterstock Olaf Lipinski, University of Southampton In the 2016 science fiction movie Arrival, a linguist is faced with…
How close are we to an accurate AI fake news detector?
Monster Ztudio/Shutterstock Magda Osman, University of Leeds In the ambitious pursuit to tackle the harms from false content…
Data centre emissions are soaring – it’s AI or the climate
Jack Marley, The Conversation Artificial intelligence (AI) is curating your social media feed and giving you directions to…
AI has a stupid secret: we’re still not sure how to test for human levels of intelligence
Are you as smart as you say you are? Hakinmhan Andrew Rogoyski, University of Surrey Two of San…