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Science has become obsessed with publishing numbers. With this new satirical proposal, have we reached peak metric?

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With gaps in vaccine coverage, nowhere is safe from measles outbreaks. But the disease has hit the Americas hard this year.

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A tool called AI-Newton can derive scientific laws from raw data, but is some way from developing human-like reasoning.

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Shaw prize winner Wolfgang Baumeister is one of many international researchers recruited by Chinese institutes.

Yoshua Bengio talks about his efforts to identify — and address — the risks posed by AI.