Storm damage to forests costs billions – here’s how artificial intelligence can help
Europe loses as many trees to storms each year as Poland produces in timber. Until now, the models for predicting which trees are at risk have not been good enough.
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Maths degrees are becoming less accessible – and this is a problem for business, government and innovation
More mathematics graduates, from more diverse backgrounds, are needed.
Don’t ban laptops in class, talk to students via Facebook
Technology is an established part of the lives of students. But university lecturers are becoming increasingly frustrated at how they must compete with tablets and laptops for students’ attention in the…
Google Deepmind founder shares Nobel prize in chemistry for AI that unlocks the shape of proteins
Using computers to design and predict protein structures will revolutionise biochemistry.
Why students need to learn academic words
Academic words are useful at school and university – but they can be tricky to learn.
Gender balance in computer science and engineering is improving at elite universities but getting worse elsewhere
Women in these fields are almost at parity with men at the most selective schools, but the gender gap doubled at many of the least selective universities.
Teenagers are choosing to study Stem subjects – it’s a sign of the times
For students taking three A-levels, the most popular combination of subjects was biology, chemistry and maths.
Google’s terms and conditions are less readable than Beowulf
Have you ever tried reading Beowulf and decided it was a bit too hard to follow before giving up? How did you get on with War and Peace? If you struggled with either of these notoriously unwieldy classics…
A‑level results: why algorithms get things so wrong – and what we can do to fix them
Problems in the underlying data mean we can’t leave algorithms to decide things on their own.
Clues to consciousness: how dopamine fits into the mystery of what makes us conscious – podcast
Plus, how a team of musicologists and computer scientists completed Beethoven’s unfinished 10th Symphony using AI. Listen to The Conversation Weekly podcast.
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