Hong Kong is expected to have around 35,000 more students from the Chinese mainland enrolled in its higher-education institutions in 2030 than in 2025. Credit: Vernon Yuen/NurPhoto via Getty Analysis of global higher-education trends indicates that Chinese students are increasingly choosing to stay in Asia to further their studies. Zhao Junyi is one of many
Mara had rejected 19 universes before lunch. One contained faster-than-light rabbits. Eight ended with humanity finding itself living in a simulation. The nineteenth came to 940 words, but only because the title, biography and copyright notices were also counted. Submission No. 1604490 seemed different. It arrived as a world. Three machine intelligences were listed on
Nick Petrić Howe: I’m going to be honest with you. I worry a lot. Nick Petrić Howe: I worry about all sorts of things. Money, friends, family, if my voice is weird as you’re listening to it… but there’s one thing I’ve been worried about since I was a teenager in the early 2000s. The
Some AI models behave like mechanics — fixing issues in other models that they neither designed nor fully understand. Credit: Mint Images/Getty Researchers have used an artificial-intelligence model to read and tinker with the internal workings of another AI network — offering a new way to peek into the ‘black box’ of AI. Computer scientists
When the United States Food and Drug Administration cleared the Apple Watch’s Hypertension Notification Feature last year, some saw it as a turning point in the fight against one of the leading causes of cardiac disease. Rather than booking a doctor’s appointment and strapping a bulging cuff around one’s arm, users could instead receive passive
In June, New Mexico State University graduate student William Grooms was using motion-sensing cameras to investigate wildlife in Carson National Forest in northern New Mexico. And when he looked through his first images, he spotted something flabbergasting. His cameras had captured a series of photographs of a Canada lynx (Lynx canadensis)—a wild cat that hasn’t