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Our current approach to mental health labelling and diagnosis has brought benefits. But as a practising doctor, I am concerned that it may be doing more harm than good ...

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Artificial intelligence can write you a passable love poem and some people even have romantic feelings towards it. But is the feeling mutual?

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The concept of a colonial toolbox remains a potent but often under-examined framework for understanding contemporary ...

Ancient duplicated genes are giving scientists their first real clues about what life was like before all life on Earth ...

He has become a vocal critic of how AI systems ingest and reassemble human creativity en masse. In our conversation, he notes how once a single guitar line, drum pattern or vocal fragment is isolated, ...

Mann argued that the success of demagogues depends less on strategic brilliance than on favourable circumstances and, above all, a lack of resistance ...

Dr L Krishnamangol SinghThe term 'Nation State’ is commonly understood. And, there is another term known as "native State", which is also commonly understood. While the former has been basically conce ...

Beneath Fresno’s scorching summer heat lies a hidden world that few expect to find — a hand-carved underground sanctuary ...

We humans have long viewed ourselves as the pinnacle of evolution. People label other species as “primitive” or “ancient” and ...