Saying please and thank you to ChatGPT is costing OpenAI millions, while new research is being done on AI ‘welfare’ – here, we ask an expert how polite we should be to our future robot overlords
May 07, 2025
According to new EHRC guidance, trans people should be banned from using toilets and changing rooms corresponding to their gender. We speak to experts about what this means in practice
Apr 30, 2025
We asked a scientist at the European Space Agency about the looming threat of asteroid 2024 YR4, and how we might stop it wreaking havoc on our home planet
Feb 27, 2025
The social media site (formerly Twitter) is under fire for promoting right-wing rhetoric and helping reelect Donald Trump. Is an X-odus to sites like Bluesky the answer?
Nov 13, 2024
‘It felt more like K and coke – I remember it having a pretty awful drip’
Oct 22, 2024
Apparently there’s some ‘dynamic symmetry’ between Harris and Trump’s charts
Jul 26, 2024
Two years ago, JWST beamed images back to Earth for the first time – here, NASA astrophysicist Dr Amber Straughn tells Dazed what it’s been up to since then
Jul 12, 2024
Part of a NASA spacecraft recently smashed through a Florida man’s roof, and a whole satellite splashed down in the ocean – here, we consult space environmentalist Moriba Jah on the rising risks
Apr 18, 2024
We may soon be able to create our own, Black Mirror-style digital afterlives, and leave ‘meat space’ behind. But what would that mean for the future of the human race?
Mar 21, 2024
As ice melt accelerates due to the climate crisis, spooky ancient organisms are being released from cryogenic sleep – here, an expert explains the catastrophic risks, and what we can do to prepare for the worst
Aug 11, 2023
What we can see with our eyes and telescopes makes up just five per cent of the universe, and the rest is a mystery – luckily, ESA’s new Euclid mission aims to provide some answers
Jul 06, 2023
Chatbots by major influencers like Amouranth and Caryn Marjorie let fans pay by the minute for virtual interactions – here, an expert on parasocial relationships walks us through the risks
Jun 21, 2023
London declaring independence is a radical idea, but it keeps coming back around – as the capital’s relationship with the rest of the UK becomes ‘increasingly fractured’, we explore what it might look like if it actually happened
Jun 13, 2023
The cost of living crisis has driven a million users offline in the UK – here, Dr Merten Reglitz makes the case for universal internet access, and the dangers of digital inequality
May 30, 2023
From the early compositions by Nintendo legend Koji Kondo to the fragmentary and sparse soundscapes of Breath of the Wild, why does the music from The Legend of Zelda go so hard?
May 19, 2023