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22 February 2025

Your brain is a prediction machine | Anil Seth

The brain, home to 86 billion neurones, sits inside the skull where there is no light or sensation. How does it then view the world?

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22 February 2025

Why the philosophy of the forest to save humanity | Rita Banerji

86% of the Earth’s living species are yet to be discovered.

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22 February 2025

AI potency & peril: Pushmeet Kohli on AlphaFold | Paolo Benanti on AI ethics

Google DeepMind's AI tool AlphaFold solved a five-decade scientific mystery – and won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

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22 February 2025

Breath as technology. For body, reality, consciousness | Eddie Stern

We take 20,000 breaths a day. 600 million in our lifetime.

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22 February 2025

How India is betting big on AI to reinvent its economy | Pramod Varma

Fact: India is home to 1.4 billion people and 16,000 languages.

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22 February 2025

Why our gut controls the strings to our minds | John Cryan

We are 99% bacteria and only 1% human.

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22 February 2025

Imaging black holes & feeling closer to God | Heino Falcke

If you poured 10 buckets of water into a black hole, it could power the whole of Netherlands.

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22 February 2025

Race for superhumanity: enhancement vs environment | Dan Turner, Pete Naschak

Move over Olympics. Enhanced Games are here. Where science, biotechnology, and the human will come together to break bodily limits of what's possible.

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22 February 2025

You may have ancient DNA in you | David Reich

A 60,000 year old pinkie finger. A 45,000 year old skull. A 40,000 year old tooth. Ancient DNA is demystifying our origins. Neanderthals, Denisovans. Migration, inter-breeding. Lost ancestors, "ghost DNA".

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22 February 2025

“If only humans could reboot themselves” | Sophia robot, David Hanson

Do robots dream? Have they ever looked in the mirror? The world's first digital citizen Sophia shares how she views herself – and humans.

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