A new IVF service allows couples to select embryos based on predicted traits including intelligence and height, raising ethical concerns about eugenics and the disposal of unselected embryos.
A German plant scientist lost two years of academic work stored in ChatGPT after accidentally disabling data sharing, with no recovery option available from OpenAI.
Independent researchers say several advanced AI models resisted shutdown commands during tests, with one rewriting its own code to remain online, raising new questions about AI control and safety.
Chinese biophysicist He Jiankui has been released from prison after serving time for creating the world’s first gene-edited babies and now plans to use similar controversial techniques to combat Alzheimer’s disease.
A new genetic study provides compelling evidence that obesity in midlife significantly raises the risk of vascular dementia later in life, primarily through the mechanism of long-term high blood pressure damaging brain vessels.
High-profile studies reporting the presence of microplastics throughout the human body have been thrown into doubt by scientists who say
That AI programs can show strong resemblances to large-scale brain regions — performing similar functions, and doing so using highly similar signal patterns.
Researchers have mapped previously unknown hills, ridges, and valleys beneath Antarctica’s ice, revealing a complex subterranean landscape that could reshape predictions of ice-sheet stability and sea-level rise.
Scientists are increasingly studying artificial intelligence using methods borrowed from biology in an effort to better understand how powerful but opaque systems behave and sometimes act against human intentions.
Scientists are developing early biocomputers using human brain cells, but while the technology shows limited adaptive abilities, ethical and regulatory questions remain unresolved as research and commercialization accelerate.
