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Your guide to a fast changing world

It's now easy for students to use AI to complete coursework essays (Credit: Getty Images)

How to spot an AI cheater

By Alex O'Brien

Actor James Dean learning against a trailer on the set of the film Giant (Credit: Getty Images)

How AI is resurrecting dead actors

By S.J. Velasquez

A demonstration of AI-powered facial recognition (Credit: Getty Images)

The 30 terms you need to understand AI

By Richard Fisher

The flying car will need to solve several issues - not least noise - if it is to become viable (Credit: Getty Images)

How close are we really to flying cars?

By Adrienne Bernhard

Lightning strikes behind wind turbines in Germany (Credit: Getty Images)

Water vapour in air could power devices

By Chris Baraniuk

Container ship in Suez Canal (Credit: Camille Delbos/Art In All of Us/Getty Images)

How big will cargo ships really get?

By Chris Baraniuk

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The nation where your face is recorded

By Jessica Mudditt

Putting out a fire on the open ocean is a difficult task, so the Maersk Honam was towed to port before the fire could be finally extinguished (Credit: Boskalis)

The people who rescue giant ships

By Chris Baraniuk

Like other popular areas including Sunny Isles and Hollywood Beach, Miami Beach is a narrow barrier island with the ocean on one side (Credit: Alamy)

Miami’s fight against rising seas

By Amanda Ruggeri

On the crowded streets of Mumbai, trains and bicycles are quicker than cars and motorbikes (Credit: Getty Images)

The world's best food delivery service

By Edd Gent

The question of what to do with the world's oil tanker fleet will become more pressing as the world tries to wean itself off fossil fuels (Credit: Getty Images)

What to do with ageing oil tankers

By Richard Gray

You might not realise it, but many of the services we now take for granted rely upon solving dynamic resource allocation (Credit: Getty Images)

The maths problem that runs our lives

By Gemma Church

A nurse administers a vaccine to a child at Ewin Polyclinic in Cape Coast, Ghana (Credit: Getty Images)

This vaccine could transform medicine

By Gaia Vince

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Why the internet is breaking up

By Sally Adee

Fukuoka is being marketed as Japan's answer to Silicon Valley (Credit: Alamy)

Japan: Untold Stories

Inside Japan’s most innovative city

By Edd Gent

Many commentators fear that white nationalism is on the rise (Credit: Getty Images)

What is the ‘extremist mindset’?

By Simon Copland