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Are AI chatbot ‘personalities’ in the eye of the beholder?

When Yang “Sunny” Lu asked OpenAI’s GPT-3.5 to calculate 1-plus-1 a few years ago, the chatbot, not...

Early Detection Tools Help but They Can’t Stop Every Wildfire

A little after 6:25 am on November 8, 2018, a 911 dispatcher received the first report of...

Quantum mechanics was born 100 years ago. Physicists are celebrating

A century ago, science went quantum. To celebrate, physicists are throwing a global, year-long party. In 1925,...

The moon’s two grand canyons formed in less than 10 minutes

A giant impact 3.8 billion years ago sent a curtain of rock flying away from a point...

Toxic dangers lurk in LA, even in homes that didn’t burn

Even as firefighters douse the deadly LA wildfires, a more insidious danger remains. Chemicals from the ashy...

A new book explores the evolutionary romance between plants and animals

When the Earth Was GreenRiley BlackSt. Martin’s Press, $29 Imagine being a paleontologist exploring Utah’s...

Plastic shards permeate human brains

Our brains are increasingly plastic. Minuscule shards and flakes of polymers are surprisingly abundant in brain tissue,...

Welcome to The Deep End, a new podcast about brain implants and depression

Brain implants for depression: It sounds like science fiction but it’s real. The Deep End, a new...

An African strontium map sheds light on the origins of enslaved people

A little-known element is shedding light on the transatlantic slave trade. Researchers have assembled a map of...

These Robots Are Recovering Dumped Explosives From the Baltic Sea

In a charming corner of the Bay of Lübeck, within sight of northern Germany’s windswept beaches, specialized...

Moon or Mars? The US Might Face a Tough Choice for Future Missions

THIS ARTICLE IS republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license.The Artemis program has been NASA’s...

RFK Jr.’s Organic Crusade Has Sparked a Weird Political Realignment

In October, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. stood outside the United States Department of Agriculture headquarters and railed...
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