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Human heads have changed shape a lot in the past 100 years

Since the early 20th century, people’s skulls have got rounder and their jaws have got wider, probably because of changes in health, diet and environment

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Abstract system of quantum computing

Technology

We might finally know how to use quantum computers to boost AI

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Humans

Are Neanderthals descendants of modern humans?

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Life

Chimpanzee group's violent rupture hints at evolutionary roots of war

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Technology

How worried should you be about an AI apocalypse?

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Technology

AI data centres can warm surrounding areas by up to 9.1°C

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Physics

How AI shook the world's largest meeting of physicists

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A team of Department of Defense drone operators and experts test the technical capabilities of various Uncrewed Aerial Systems (UAS) during a Defense Innovation Unit led prize challenge to identify platforms, components, and capabilities for Blue UAS, which clears and validates flying platforms are safe to fly, cyber-secure, and meet DOD requirements, at Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, Twentynine Palms, California, on Nov. 2-6, 2024. The Blue UAS Refresh Challenge included more than 35 platforms and companies, and an expert team of 40 military drone end-users with participation from each service branch and several major program offices in support of the Department???s ability to quickly scale and field commercially produced drone technologies for military and government use. (DOD photo by Devon Bistarkey, Defense Innovation Unit) https://www.war.gov/Multimedia/Photos/igphoto/2003592438/

Technology

What to read this week: Katrina Manson's terrifying Project Maven

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Environment

Route-planning AI cut climate-warming contrails on over 100 flights

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Technology

AI is nearly exclusively designed by men – here's how to fix it

With the Trump administration’s attacks on so-called woke AI it is becoming even harder to make the technology we use fairer and more diverse. Leading voices are speaking out, reports Catherine de Lange

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Humans

Our extinct Australopithecus relatives may have had difficult births

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Mathematics

Mathematics is undergoing the biggest change in its history

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Humans

Human populations evolved in similar ways after we began farming

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Humans

We’ve only just confirmed that Homo habilis really existed

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