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Human biology

March 2025

  • Adrian Chiles

    I twanged my achilles playing pickleball. Here’s what it taught me about tendons – and human nature

    Adrian Chiles
    You learn so much when you’re forced to clop around town in a great big boot, writes Adrian Chiles. And you make so many friends …

January 2025

  • ‘We were very careful about keeping their performances’ … Adrien Brody and Felicity Jones in The Brutalist.

    The Brutalist and Emilia Perez’s voice-cloning controversies make AI the new awards season battleground

  • Photograph: Abstract Aerial Art/Getty Images

    The Audio Long Read
    Teeth as time capsules: Soviet secrets and my dentist grandmother – podcast

December 2024

  • a model of a Neanderthal man at the Natural History Museum, London.

    Book of the day
    Hubris by Johannes Krause and Thomas Trappe review – learning from the Neanderthals

  • Lisa Kudrow.

    Lisa Kudrow says Tom Hanks movie Here is ‘an endorsement for AI’

November 2024

  • An audience member for Detective Work is fitted with an EEG brain-scanning device by members of the Neurolive team.

    ‘It’s like collective daydreaming’: the giant study showing how dancing affects our brains

    Dancers and audiences are being fitted with electrode caps as part of a massive neurological study into how we respond to live performance – and the findings go far beyond what was first imagined

October 2024

  • Demis Hassabis

    Demis Hassabis: from video game designer to Nobel prize winner

  • abstract image that looks like human teeth, but is in fact an aerial photo taken by a drone looking down on formations at the edge of a salt lake in Western Australia

    The long read
    Teeth as time capsules: Soviet secrets and my dentist grandmother

August 2024

  • Black Box podcast logo

    Today in Focus
    Black Box: episode 1 – The connectionists - podcast

    This week we are revisiting the Black Box series. This episode was first broadcast on 4 March 2024

    This is the story of Geoffrey Hinton, a man who set out to understand the brain and ended up working with a group of researchers who invented a technology so powerful that even they do not truly understand how it works. This is about a collision between two mysterious intelligences – two black boxes – human and artificial. And it is already having profound consequences
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    Today in Focus
    Black Box: episode 0 – The collision - podcast

    This week we are revisiting the Black Box series. This episode was first broadcast on 29 February 2024.

    The beginning of a new series that explores seven stories and the thread that ties them together: artificial intelligence. In this prologue, Hannah (not her real name) has met Noah and he has changed her life for the better. So why does she have concerns about him?
  • An abstract collage of newspaper headlines

    In brief: The Newsmongers; The Night in Venice; Vital Organs – review

    An informed history of tabloid journalism; an atmospheric Edwardian-era mystery set in Italy; and a riotous study of famous people’s body parts

June 2024

  • Sophie Wilkinson

    Germany has come clean about the state of its public toilets. Why can’t Britain?

    Sophie Wilkinson
    The country’s first School Toilet Summit was held this month to improve public facilities. Instead of sneering, let’s join them, says freelance journalist Sophie Wilkinson
  • The Prince Charles Cinema in central London.

    London premiere of movie with AI-generated script cancelled after backlash

    Plans to show The Last Screenwriter, whose script is credited to ‘ChatGPT 4.0’, prompted complaints although the film-makers insist the feature is ‘a contribution to the cause’
  • Natacha Gray sitting in her wheelchair.

    Life with long Covid
    ‘A 30-second walk would exhaust me beyond reason’: Natacha’s life with long Covid

    Natacha Gray had an active life, diving, climbing and playing music, before illness left her so tired she would collapse on the way to the couch. She discusses two and a half devastating years – and how she stays optimistic

May 2024

  • black and white photo of a man and woman cuddling

    ‘I often say the journey time is longer’: how to make sex after 50 work for you

    Many people’s sex lives can dip in middle age – and tiredness is a real passion killer. But there are simple things that can make a difference
  • BUTTERMERE, 21 June 2021 - Five frriends making their longest swim on the longest day, the 1.24 mile length of Buttermere in the Lake District. Christopher Thomond for The Guardian.

    What if HRT isn’t right for me? And is cold-water swimming really the answer to everything? Your menopause questions answered

    We asked the experts for advice on how to ease your path through menopause and what alternative treatments work best

    • ‘I was grieving on a very biological level’: how three women got through menopause

    • The hot years: the truth about what happens during menopause – and the best ways to get through it

    • Perimenopausal women have 40% higher risk of depression, study suggests

April 2024

  • a still from Putin, directed by Besaleel.

    Soiled nappies and karate: AI-rendered Putin biopic to be released

    Polish director Besaleel’s film will feature an AI-rendered Russian president and footage shot by Ukrainian film-makers during the Russian invasion
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