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Imagine a field of wheat that extends to the horizon, being grown for flour that will be made into bread to feed cities' worth of people. Imagine that all authority for tilling, planting, fertilising, monitoring and harvesting this field has been delegated to artificial intelligence: algorithms that control drip-irrigation systems, self-driving tractors and combine harvesters, clever enough to respond to the weather and the exact needs of the crop.

The grip of Silicon Valley on commerce and culture is huge and ever-growing. But as concerns mount about tech firms’ ethics, is there anything that universities – with vastly lower research and salary budgets – can do to put them on a more responsible trajectory? Four experts give their views

We need long-term solutions, but the idea has been hijacked by a worldview that downplays climate risks.

We need long-term solutions, but the idea has been hijacked by a worldview that downplays climate risks.

The Doomsday Clock depicts how close humanity is to armageddon – but where did it come from, how do you read its time, and what can we learn from it?

75 years since it started ticking, we're closer to annihilation than ever before – but that's not necessarily the end of the world...

There’s no need to panic about the asteroids heading ‘close’ to Earth in January.

There’s no need to panic about the asteroids heading ‘close’ to Earth in January.

Will Don’t Look Up wake people up? Here’s what the research on climate communication says.

Talking about “the future” quite naturally involves talking about “the past.”