How birds’ bizarre mating rituals have played a key role in their evolution

How birds’ bizarre mating rituals have played...

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Why the new era of life-saving drugs starts with plants

Chances are that if you open your bathroom cabinet, many of the medicines you find there were first discovered by studying the chemical processes of the plants that grow all around us. But with 450,000 plant species existing in the world, the truth is that we’re only just scratch ...  عرض المزيد

How to beat the alarming increase in childhood allergies

Currently, around 40 per cent of children in the UK have been diagnosed with an allergy of some form or another – the most common being food allergies, eczema, asthma, and hay fever. Why is this number so alarmingly high, what can we do to treat them, and what measures can we tak ...  عرض المزيد

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Can a machine read my mind?
CrowdScience

For decades science fiction has been imagining the incredible ways that machines might interact directly with our minds, from enabling telepathic communication to controlling robotic suits, solely using the power of thought. Getting computers to interface directly with the human ...  عرض المزيد

Real Solutions for Everyday Anxiety & The Evolution of Talking Computers
Something You Should Know

It is hard to imagine how intricate and complicated your eyes are. This episode starts with a look at some of the amazing things your eyes do and how they work to allow you to see the world. https://www.buzzfeed.com/acuvue/impossibly-cool-facts-you-may-not-know-about-yo#.kjpwxlkv ...  عرض المزيد

Neil Lawrence on taking down the 'digital oligarchy' and why we shouldn't fear AI
The Life Scientific

When you think of Artificial Intelligence, does it inspire confidence, or concern?Although it's now generally accepted that this technology will play a major role in our future, a lot of conversations around AI and machine learning come back to the argument over us losing control ...  عرض المزيد

When brains and computers meet
BBC Inside Science

Are cyborgs now reality? Elon Musk certainly thinks so. His company, Neuralink, has successfully implanted one of its wireless brain chips in a human. Although billed as a breakthrough, they’re not the first to do it. In fact, similar devices have already been implanted, all with ...  عرض المزيد