Smartphone app could help detect early-onset dementia cause, study finds

App-based cognitive tests found to be proficient at detecting frontotemporal dementia in those most at risk

Sepsis blood test combined with AI could offer early detection tool

Researchers say dual approach could quickly detect patients most at risk of severe complications

Scientists turn to AI to make beer taste even better

Researchers in Belgium use artificial intelligence to improve taste, but say the skill of the brewer remains vital

Medics design AI tool to predict side-effects in breast cancer patients

Trials in UK, France and the Netherlands indicate tool can predict if patient will experience problems from surgery and radiotherapy

Brain chips: the Sydney researchers ‘miles ahead’ of Elon Musk’s Neuralink

Multiple Australian projects are on the cutting edge of neurotech breakthroughs and man-machine interfaces – raising questions of security and privacy for human minds

Scroll on: why your screen-time habits aren’t as bad as you think they are

The increasing use of digital technology has inspired many scare stories, but is it reducing our attention span, does smartphone addiction actually exist – and should we even be feeling bad about it?

A Million Days review – low-budget sci-fi thriller asks if we should trust AI with our survival

In the near future humanity is doomed and our options are being determined by AI simulation – unfortunately for us, the AI doesn’t seem particularly bothered if we survive

Edwin Hancock obituary

Other lives: Computer scientist specialising in computer vision and pattern recognition

Tech bros need to realise deepfake porn ruins lives – and the law has to catch up

Taylor Swift is just one of countless victims of deepfake videos. Firms feeding off this abuse should pay for the harm they cause

Can we have our cake and eat it? Welcome to the world of sugar elimination

Our sugar problem could be solved by counteracting it after we’ve eaten it, as stomach ‘sponges’ and fibre-making enzymes head to market

OpenAI’s new video generation tool could learn a lot from babies

The footage put together by Sora looks swish, but closer examination reveals its doesn’t understand physical reality

Switzerland calls on UN to explore possibility of solar geoengineering

Proposal focuses on technique that fills atmosphere with particles, reflecting part of sun’s heat and light back into space

Greener ‘water batteries’ a step closer thanks to breakthrough by Melbourne researchers

RMIT team develops method that could replace common lead-acid batteries, offering a safer and more recyclable alternative

Solar storms, ice cores and nuns’ teeth: the new science of history

The long read: Advances in fields such as spectrometry and gene sequencing are unleashing torrents of new data about the ancient world – and could offer answers to questions we never even knew to ask

The perfect storm for small talk? Weather forecasters aim at long-range accuracy

In the 70s, weather forecasts were accurate just one or two days ahead. Now a specialist university project at Reading is trying to get them right a month into the future