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The Artificial Intelligence chatbot, ChatGPT, appeared to improvise ideas and make mistakes like a student in a study that rebooted a 2,400-year-old mathematical challenge.

To ensure AI and humans collaborate effectively, it is important to carefully consider how AI generalises, according to a group of researchers, including Filip Ilievski and Frank van Harmelen of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

A robot that detects, reaches, and disinfects contaminated surfaces in a targeted way: this is the outcome of It marks a new frontier in the sanitization of healthcare and public environments through autonomous and adaptive technologies.

The majority of the Swiss public supports scientific research and condemns attacks on science, according to the 2025 Science Barometer survey conducted by the University of Zurich.

In a real-world lab in Jurapark Aargau, researchers and the local community are testing out ideas for a sustainable future.

Posted on: 15 September 2025 A global study reframes ditches as multifunctional waterways with the potential to improve community resilience, water quality, biodiversity and environmental outcomes.

Adèle Saives set her sights high for her doctorate in nursing: she aimed to design and evaluate the effects of a neonatal hammock for premature newborns.

Focused laser-like light that covers a wide range of frequencies is highly desirable for many scientific studies and for many applications, for instance quality control of manufacturing semiconductor electronic chips. But creating such broadband and coherent light has been difficult to achieve with anything but bulky energy-hungry tabletop devices.

Implementing artificial intelligence (AI) into NHS hospitals is far harder than initially anticipated, with complications around governance, harmonisation with old IT systems and finding the right AI tools and staff training, finds a major new UK study led by UCL researchers. The authors of the study, published in  The Lancet eClinicalMedicine , say the findings should provide timely and useful learning for the UK Government, whose recent 10-year NHS plan identifies digital transformation, including AI, as a key platform to improving the service and patient experience.

The first new UK-wide long-term scientific study of babies and child development in a quarter of a century will be led by researchers at the UCL Centre for Longitudinal Studies.

The exterior railings of the 125 year-old Schatzalp Hotel in Davos were in poor condition.

Are language models such as ChatGPT suitable as independent teaching assistants in the natural sciences? A research team at the University of Würzburg has investigated this question.

Staff shortages, rising costs, and increasing demand are placing immense pressure on the healthcare system and making its future uncertain.