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A friendly introduction to AI proves oddly unnerving

Statisticians Nick Polson and James Scott want us to use AI for good. But their new book AIQ struggles to show us how, says Julie Freeman

Culture

Don't miss: immortality in New York, sulphur and science comedy

Life

Don't miss: immortality in New York, sulphur and science comedy

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Earth

Globetrotting film sends scientists on "relay race" of inquiry

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Humans

The clock-maker who helped fashion art from science

Culture

A pile of open books

Technology

How authors are gaming Amazon’s algorithms with 3000-page books

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Technology

Censored: Why China’s online oversight is anything but crude

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Health

Model Behaviour: How a sceptic was won over by life in the lab

Culture

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Physics

What Is Real? A tale of how big egos hijacked quantum physics

Culture

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Humans

Elements of surprise: What fiction plots tell us about our minds

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Life

Blossoms: The complex secrets of spring’s simple beauty

Spring’s delicate riot of colour is a complex story of genes and chemistry and explaining it well turns out to be tough going

Culture

Humans

Your mind is not an iceberg – there's nothing under the surface

Culture

Space

Pushing the boundaries: A round-up of new popular science books

Culture

Humans

Enlightenment now: The rise and fall of progress

Culture

Health

The Genius Within: How to be smart in the 21st century

Culture