‘They don’t just fall out of trees’: Nobel awards highlight Britain’s AI pedigree
Recognition for Demis Hassabis and Geoffrey Hinton marks moment when important ingredients came together
Demis Hassabis: from video game designer to Nobel prize winner
Google DeepMind chief believes in benefits of AI but says risks must be taken as seriously as the climate crisis
AI glasses to anticipating falls: firms vie to win £1m for dementia technology
Longitude prize will give one of five finalists money towards creating an innovation for independent living
Machine learning pioneers win Nobel prize in physics
Geoffrey Hinton, ‘godfather of AI’, and John Hopfield honoured for work on artificial neural networks
The Guardian view on the other influencers: a golden era for science education
Editorial: YouTube isn’t always a stupefaction engine. Curious children and other autodidacts have unrivalled access to knowledge
Archaeologists use AI to discover 303 unknown geoglyphs near Nazca Lines
Newly discovered figures dating back to 200BCE nearly double the number of known geoglyphs at enigmatic site
Race to combat mpox misinformation as vaccine rollout in DRC begins
Poll suggests half of Congolese have not heard of deadly disease, as conspiracy theories and rumours spread
South Sudan medics trial AI app to identify snakes and improve bite treatment
Software with database of 380,000 pictures aims to aid quick and accurate identification and ensure correct use of antivenoms
‘It’s the robot we were all expecting – like C3PO’: why aren’t humanoids in our homes yet?
Tesla and others are trying to infuse robots with artificial intelligence, yet their development is dogged by technical and safety challenges. But the dream of a multipurpose domestic droid lives on
‘You feel omnipresent’: bringing city care to India’s country hospitals
With no intensive care available in remote areas, many patients died on their way to city hospitals. Now rural medics are using tele-ICU systems to save lives
Do you see blue or green? This viral test plays with color perception
A visual neuroscientist realized he saw green and blue differently to his wife. He designed an interactive site that has received over 1.5m visits
AI can change belief in conspiracy theories, study finds
Research challenges conventional wisdom that evidence and arguments rarely help to change believers’ minds
SpaceX Polaris Dawn: all-civilian crew completes first privately funded spacewalk – as it happened
Billionaire Jared Isaacman and SpaceX engineer Sarah Gillis take part in first privately-funded spacewalk
Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI by Yuval Noah Harari review – rage against the machine
The author of the bestselling Sapiens offers a penetrating critique of the insidious dangers of machine learning and its capacity to manipulate the truth
Airbus trials prototype space rovers in Bedfordshire quarry
Fitted with robotic arms and navigation cameras, the rovers are being developed for mooted missions to the moon and Mars