Many health symptoms can be caused by multiple illnesses – if AI can’t tell the difference between them, it won’t be able to ...

But common sense and the precautionary principle suggest that it is too early for AI to prescribe drugs without human oversight. And the fact that mistakes may be baked into the technology could mean ...

Brain-computer interfaces will play a central role in defining how human intelligence and artificial intelligence fit together.

Sarah Ferguson revealed Queen Elizabeth advised her to 'be herself' when transitioning into being a member of the royal family.

Artificial intelligence is no longer just spotting tumors a little faster than humans. In study after study, machine learning ...

For more than a century, scientists have argued over what really drives cancer, yet the pieces of the puzzle have rarely fit ...

Automation in healthcare means using smart technology, like computers and robots, to do tasks that people used to do. This ...

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet and KTH have developed a computational method that can reveal how cells change and ...

Studying one of the simplest animals, Stanford's Prakash Lab uncovered how it folds itself into complex shapes—revealing new ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price.