Google’s takeover of health app appears to renege on DeepMind promises
DeepMind used 1.6 million patient records from the NHS to develop its Streams app. Now Google is taking over and wants to develop a digital hospital assistant
There is no fundamental difference between male and female brains
A lasting desire to find differences in how male and female brains work serves to affirm gender stereotypes, not explain them, says Dean Burnett
China may have developed a quantum radar that can spot stealth planes
A defence firm has unveiled a prototype quantum radar. If it works, it could use entangled protons to locate stealth aircraft that normally avoid detection
Mystery “space cow” is a weird new type of powerful space explosion
Months of observations have shown that the strange explosion in space called “the Cow” gets extra power from within, making it a new type of celestial event
Growing demand for oil will lead to shortage and high prices in 2020s
Even if governments step up action on energy, fossil fuel consumption will keep growing for at least another 20 years according to a major new report
An extinct monkey evolved to live like a sloth in the Caribbean
Jamaica was once home to a sloth-like monkey – now we know it was a strange descendant of South America’s titi monkeys that adapted to island life
Earliest known animal might have inflated its body like a balloon
Dickinsonia lived about 560 million years ago and may have been the first animal – but it seems to have inflated its body in a way no animals do today
Pluto’s weird ridges may be glacial landforms unlike any on Earth
Next to Pluto’s heart-shaped plains are strange rolling hills unlike anything we’ve seen on Earth, and they may be left over from receding ancient glaciers
We’ve discovered a whole new defence system against germs in our noses
Billions of tiny sacs filled with weapons and warning signals to other cells are released into the lining of our noses when dangerous bacteria are detected
Robots are learning hand gestures by watching hours of TED talks
Hand gestures are difficult for robots to reproduce convincingly, so hundreds of hours of TED videos are being used to teach them how to better gesticulate