The animal alliances reshaping our understanding of intelligence
Scientists have long thought intelligence tends to develop through social interactions with an animals’ own species.
Alexandra Schnell, Research Fellow in Comparative Psychology, University of Cambridge •
conversation
March 20, 2025 • ~8 min
March 20, 2025 • ~8 min
My team discovered ‘dark oxygen’ on the seafloor – now we’re trying to understand how it was made
Scientists are exploring the deep ocean to understand how oxygen can be produced there without sunlight.
Andrew Sweetman, Professor of Seafloor Ecology and Biogeochemistry, Scottish Association for Marine Science •
conversation
March 20, 2025 • ~6 min
March 20, 2025 • ~6 min
If we fully engage with how generative AI works, we can still create original art
How can we create new ways for understanding how AI image-production models inform our experience of the world?
Anthony Downey, Professor of Visual Culture, Birmingham City University •
conversation
March 19, 2025 • ~7 min
March 19, 2025 • ~7 min
Software is increasingly being built by AI – so it’s vital to know if it can be trusted
Handing over the tasks once done by human developers comes with some major risks.
Jordi Cabot, Head of the Software Engineering RDI Unit at LIST. FNR Pearl Chair. Affiliate Professor in CS at University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST) •
conversation
March 17, 2025 • ~6 min
March 17, 2025 • ~6 min
Make Indian Sign Language official language and open more schools for deaf and hard-of-hearing students, study advises
Around one in five (over 19%) of India’s deaf and hard-of-hearing children were out-of-school in 2014, according to a survey conducted for the Indian
Cambridge University News •
cambridge
March 17, 2025 • ~6 min
March 17, 2025 • ~6 min
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