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Caste in India divides people into hereditary groups.Credit: Nasir Kachroo/NurPhoto via GettyPopular artificial-intelligence (AI) models often reproduce harmful stereotypes about Indian castes, find several studies that…

Credit: querbeet/iStock via GettyWhat is a chatbot’s earliest memory? Or biggest fear? Researchers who put major artificial-intelligence models through four weeks of psychoanalysis got haunting answers…

New therapies for Alzheimer’s disease should target a particular gene linked to the condition, according to researchers who said most cases would never arise if its…

Christmas may be associated with the aromas of oranges and mince pies but our towns and cities also boast special scents during the rest of the…

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman.The Christmas tree feels like a tradition from time immemorial—and in some ways…

Patches of the moon are destined to become spacecraft graveyards where dead lunar satellites and other defunct hardware can be crashed into the ground, far away…

The Hungarian-born physicist Leo Szilard was the inspiration behind the idea of the Szilard point, a term used in cost–benefit analyses of grant proposals. Credit: Bettmann/GettyCompetition…

Survey results suggest that peer reviewers are increasingly turning to AI.Credit: Panther Media Global/AlamyMore than 50% of researchers have used artificial intelligence while peer reviewing manuscripts,…

Near the end of his first series of chess matches against IBM’s Deep Blue computer in 1996, the Russian grandmaster Garry Kasparov lamented what he saw…

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.Canada is to spend C$1.7bn (US$1.2bn) to attract…