Diana Stanley and the enduring magic of The Borrowers

New Writing Scotland publishes works by writers resident in Scotland or Scots by birth, upbringing, or inclination. Prose (fiction and nonfiction); poetry; drama; screenplays; and graphic artwork (mon...

Ørsted's Barrow Offshore Wind Farm is celebrating 20 years of generating renewable, home-grown electricity for the UK, marking two decades of operation that have helped demonstrat...

Can the Tapestry’s narrative ambivalence tell us about the women who made it?

Analysis of fossil proteins deepens mystery of the enigmatic Homo naledi

Reactivation of typically harmless anelloviruses, in particular, seems to be linked with developing long COVID, study finds.

Research on SARS-CoV-2 shows that effective immunity can arise from a balance between recalling existing immune memory and generating new variant-specific antibodies, with important implications for…

AbstractObjectives. The immunosuppressed are poorly represented in disease surveillance and pharmacovigilance dataflows, proving especially consequential d

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Workers at three major publishing houses tell WIRED that LLMs are being used for publicity, cover art, back cover copy, and emails, as some execs push junior staff to champion the tech.

A UC Berkeley researcher co-authored a study that raises profound questions about how we interact with artificial intelligence in education — and daily life.

Changes in guidance and science seem to have little impact on millions of devastated lives. It’s a social crisis playing out behind closed doors, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

Actors detained at Jewish Voice for Peace demonstration against Israeli prime minister’s address to the UN general assembly

US government adviser Paul Christiano warns of risks to AI industry as he joins OpenAI’s non-profit foundation OpenAI is not on track to reduce risks of “catastrophic” loss of control to an acceptable level, a member of its non-profit board has warned, amid spreading public and political concern that super-advanced AIs could one day wipe out humanity. Paul Christiano, a US government technology adviser, said “there is a meaningful risk that rapid acceleration in AI capabilities leads to catastrophic and irreversible loss of control in the very near term.” Continue reading...

The report highlights more than 50 key ‘solution areas’, with the potential to trigger rapid and transformative change to repair the planet within the next five years.

What sounds like the overwrought penultimate episode in a sci-fi series about AI doom is now our reality

In anticipation of the publication of my novella, American Moon, I’ve been thinking a lot about the form. Novellas are tiny in the world of books, but they’re good for readers in a self-inflicted t…

The move comes weeks after a DJ admitted using AI to remix a Madonna song that topped the Australian charts.

How a seventh-century monk drew up a blueprint for modern international humanitarian law.