There is no problem in principle for machines to design other machines, for systems to generate other systems, and so on until human contribution is nothing more than a distant memory
The US president is one of 338 names registered as candidates, but bookmakers give him a 3% probability of victory
From Netanyahu to the leader of Pakistan, proposals are growing to reward the US president and thus gain his sympathy. Experts consider it unlikely, although they do not rule it out altogether
The biochemist, who died at 88 in La Jolla, California, transformed the lives of millions after participating in the development of 40 new drugs, including the best-selling one in history
A paper questions assumptions about ‘nonlocality,’ the instantaneous influence between particles at a distance, rekindling old questions about freedom of choice
The US president no longer cares about the near-term political consequences of his actions, says the former senior official in an interview in Washington
Experts say that vitamins should be part of a healthy diet, but supplements only taken on prescription
For some of the winners of the award, which will be announced this Thursday in Stockholm, it was a ‘kiss of death.’ Many never wrote any more notable works, and others felt uneasy about the loss of their privacy
Thanks to her rigorous work and ability to occupy positions of power, the new Nobel Prize winner in Economics has made the field progress, and helped other female researchers
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the Harvard professor ‘for having advanced our understanding of women’s labour market outcomes’
The Swedish Academy rewarded the French writer’s ‘courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of personal memory’