The latest PISA assessment presents an unusually stark picture of educational performance. More than 760,000 15-year-old students across 91 participating countries and economies were assessed, producing evidence of broad declines in some
The latest PISA assessment presents an unusually stark picture of educational performance. More than 760,000 15-year-old students across 91 participating countries and economies were assessed, producing evidence of broad declines in some
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Laws that have driven smoking out of offices, restaurants, public transport and other public spaces have reduced exposure to second-hand smoke, but a global study suggests the problem remains far from resolved.
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In mid-2023, an experiment within OpenAI’s “RLSlow” research project produced results that changed the way its researchers viewed the trajectory of artificial intelligence. Jakub Pachocki, OpenAI’s chief scientist, recalls that he and
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The world is living through an age of extremes, according to UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk, who has warned that wars, technological disruption, climate chaos, political polarisation and widening
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A concert, a demonstration or a football match may appear to be an ordinary gathering of people. But as artificial intelligence becomes increasingly embedded in facial-recognition systems, such events can also become
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On a cloudless night in August, a lawn chair offered a simple vantage point for watching the sky. It was the peak of the Perseid meteor shower, when as many as 100
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For more than a century, the idea of replacing a failing human organ with one taken from an animal has hovered between medical ambition and science fiction. Now, advances in genetic engineering
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A Chinese-German research team has developed an ultra-sensitive magnetic sensor capable of detecting signals a billion times fainter than Earth’s magnetic field, creating a potential new tool for the search for elusive
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The United States should begin preparing for scenarios in which extreme measures could be required to prevent China from achieving artificial general intelligence first, including state-backed espionage and military strikes against Chinese
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A genetically modified pig kidney functioned in a human patient for 271 days before being removed and replaced with a human donor organ, marking the longest recorded survival of an animal-to-human kidney
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