China is advancing rapidly in embodied AI development through government policy support and private sector innovation, potentially gaining early dominance in AI-powered robotics while the United States risks falling behind without urgent manufacturing investment and strategic focus.
An Italian engineer’s erosion analysis suggests Egypt’s Great Pyramid could be tens of thousands of years older than previously believed, though the unpeer-reviewed findings remain controversial.
New research indicates that even small increases in daily physical activity can meaningfully reduce mortality risk, especially among inactive people.
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.
