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Google's Project Loon helium balloons were intended to bring internet access to remote parts of the world (Credit: Loon)

How this balloon surprised its creators

By Chris Baraniuk

There are some who fear that as children learn to rely upon AI-powered smart writing systems, their vocabulary and spelling may suffer (Credit: Alamy)

How autosuggest affects your brain

By Anne McCarthy

Tapping into the nerves that control the heart could allow a range of conditions to be monitored and treated (Credit: Getty Images)

How to hack the human heart

By Gemma Church

If algorithms could tell voters which candidates best match their views, would it improve or reduce engagement in elections (Credit: Alamy)

How voting could get easier

By Frank Swain

Border guards are not known for their sympathetic attitude, but increasing reliance upon artificial intelligence could make reasoning with them even harder (Credit: Getty)

The border guards you can’t reason with

By Molly Kendrick

Forensics officers spend hours and even days scouring crime scenes for clues but new technology can help to link these to other crimes (Credit: Getty Images)

The key to solving crime?

By Chris Baraniuk

Shifting winds, different types of vegetation and rainfall patterns can make it difficult to predict the paths that wildfires will take (Credit: Getty Images)

A way to tackle wildfires

By Abigail Beall

Using artificial intelligence to predict where and when conflicts might escalate could help peacekeepers intervene sooner (Credit: Getty Images)

The key to world peace?

Online bullies can target people from behind a veil of anonymity provided by the internet while victims can face hatred from complete strangers (Credit: Getty Images)

The best way to stop bullies?

By Sarah Griffiths

Eavesdropping on the calls of forest elephants could help give an early warning to problems amoung groups of these endangered animals (Credit: Getty Images)

What links AI and elephants?

By Rachel Nuwer

Artist Maja Petric and computer scientist Mihai Jalobeanu trained an AI algorithm to look for images that typified aspects of climate change (Credit: Maja Petric)

Climate change as you've never seen it

Humans often only realise something is wrong with them when they feel symptoms, but artificial intelligence can detect the warning signs far earlier (Credit: Getty Images)

The signs of disease no one can see

By Leah Kaminsky

Illustration of neural networks in a human head (Credit: Alamy)

Why AI is incomprehensible

By David Beer

Robot hands typing on a keyboard (Credit: Alamy)

The chatbots that say they can feel

By Zaria Gorvett

There's mounting concern that misogyny towards AI voice assistants might spill over to affect real humans in the metaverse (Credit: Alamy)

Is your voice assistant sexist?

By Chris Baraniuk

If we are to adopt self-driving vehicles it will require people to trust the technology entirely – will that be a good thing? (Credit: Kazuhiro Nogi/AFP/Getty Images)

Have we evolved to trust machines?

By Chris Baraniuk