Dario Amodei warns that superhuman AI arriving within two years could trigger mass unemployment, bioterrorism and authoritarian control, unless humanity gets serious about the risks right now.

An in-depth analysis of Dario Amodei's essay "The Adolescence of Technology." We explore the risks of powerful AI, the ...

Inside the whisky circle, the ‘other’ with a lemon slice Choosing soda over scotch: The Bacchus-blessed and the rest of us ...

Even though it's high summer in the Antarctic, the ocean around the Rothera research station is -1 Celsius. As some of the most productive oceans on the planet - a soup of microscopic plant and animal ...

Scientists have uncovered a surprising genetic shift that may explain how animals with backbones—from fish and frogs to ...

In biology, many RNA molecules act as sophisticated microscopic machines. Among them, riboswitches function as tiny biological sensors, changing their 3D shape upon binding to a specific metabolite.

When water and ions move together through channels only a nanometer wide, they behave in unusual ways. In these tight spaces, water molecules line up in single file. This forces ions to shed some of ...

Researchers from the Faculty of Engineering at The University of Hong Kong (HKU) have developed two innovative deep-learning ...

The highlight of the haul is two years’ worth of preserved marine animals for dissection: about 500 small squid, plus some starfish, sea urchins and sand dollars.

Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine report in Science Advances a breakthrough in human norovirus (HuNoV) research.

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A deep learning framework combines convolutional and bidirectional recurrent networks to improve protein function prediction from genomic sequences. By automating feature extraction and capturing long ...