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'I honestly am not sure on this at all': Poll reveals public uncertainty over experimenting on conscious lab-grown 'minibrains'Hundreds of readers responded to our poll asking if it would be OK to experiment on lab-grown "brains" if they became conscious.
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Citation cartels, ghost writing and fake peer-review: Fraud is causing a crisis in science — here's what we need to do to stop itOpinion Thousands of scientific papers are retracted every year because of fraudulent activity, with both authors and journals gaming a system to gain academic acclaim through deceit, dishonesty and false representation.
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Ancient Hobbits slowed down growth during childhood, showing that humans didn't always grow 'bigger and bigger brains'Hobbits of Flores evolved to be small by slowing down growth during childhood, new research on teeth and brain size suggests.
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Why OpenAI’s solution to AI hallucinations would kill ChatGPT tomorrowOpenAI has published a new paper identifying why ChatGPT is prone to making things up. Unfortunately, the problem may be unfixable.
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Fossil of huge penguin that lived 3 million years ago discovered in New Zealand — what happened to it?The newly-discovered penguin species went extinct when the ice age hit, but researchers don't think the cold was to blame for their demise.
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Dangers of falling birth rates in the US have been 'dramatically overstated,' experts sayOpinion While the changes in population structure that accompany low birth rates are real, the impact of these changes has been dramatically overstated.
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We are just beginning to discover what Earth's inner core is really made ofEarth's core cannot be made just of iron — it also appears to contain carbon. And our research suggests it may contain a bit of oxygen and possibly silicon as well.
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If tiny lab-grown 'brains' became conscious, would it still be OK to experiment on them?A perspective paper published this week argued that brain organoids could soon gain consciousness, and we should consider stricter regulations around them.
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'There's no shoving that genie back in the bottle': Readers believe it's too late to stop the progression of AIOver 1,700 readers responded to a Live Science poll, and 46% believe that we must stop AI development now because the risks of it being a threat are too great.
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