A computer monitor showing a conversation between a human participant and “Eugene” the supercomputer. A computer program has made Artificial Intelligence history by unrecognizably impersonating a human with a 30-plus percent accuracy. The program, named Eugene, was made to engage in conversation with judges at the Royal Society in London on Saturday, pretending to be supposed teenager Eugene... 

China's surge in progress could soon overwhelm the US, say experts. China is on course to overtake the US in scientific output possibly as soon as 2013 – far earlier than expected. That is the conclusion of a major new study by the Royal Society, the UK’s national science academy. The country that invented the compass, gunpowder, paper and printing is set for a globally important comeback. An...