MORE than 300,000 homes could be left without access to Freeview and Freesat after researchers found the services could be switched off sooner than expected. Older people and those unable to afford ...

DStv has lowered the upfront cost of its decoder, announced additional channels for its entry-level package, and introduced a new split-payment feature to retain customers. The changes were announced ...

AlphaGenome is a leap forward in the ability to study the human blueprint. But the fine workings of our DNA are still largely a mystery. By Carl Zimmer In 2024, two scientists from Google DeepMind ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Welcome to our end-of-year Decoder special! Senior producers Kate Cox and Nick Statt here. We’ve had a big year, ...

Since 2018, Slate critic Willa Paskin has explored bizarre and delightful cultural phenomena from “Baby Shark” to Chuck E. Cheese to try to understand what makes people obsessed with arbitrary ...

Dolphins are one of the smartest animals on Earth and have been revered for thousands of years for their intelligence, emotions and social interaction with humans. Now Google is using artificial ...

Generative artificial intelligence has entered a new frontier of fundamental biology: helping scientists to better understand proteins, the workhorses of living cells. Scientists have developed two ...

Artificial intelligence can read data stored in DNA strands within 10 minutes rather than the days required for previous methods, bringing DNA storage closer to practical use in computing. “DNA can ...