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AI’s Next Frontier? An Algorithm for Consciousness

As a journalist who covers AI, I hear from countless people who seem utterly convinced that ChatGPT,...

Millions Are Confessing Their Secrets to Chatbots. Is That Therapy?

I.Quentin in the DesertQuentin awoke on a thin mattress, beneath a collection of scavenged blankets, in an...

Astronomers Have Discovered Earth’s Latest Quasi-Lunar Moon

The Earth has just added its seventh confirmed quasi-lunar moon. It is 2025 PN7, a small Apollo-type...

A conference just tested AI agents’ ability to do science

In a first, a scientific conference welcomed paper submissions from any area of science, but with one...

Napoleon’s retreating army may have been plagued by these microbes

Meghan Rosen is a senior writer who reports on the life sciences for Science News. She...

Brain cancer can dissolve parts of the skull

Meghan Rosen is a senior writer who reports on the life sciences for Science News. She...

In Orbit You Have to Slow Down to Speed Up

If you watch sci-fi movies, you’d think that flying a spaceship is just like driving a slightly...

Meet the Palestinian Teens Trying to Win Robotics Gold

For the entirety of the past year, as the teenage roboticists of Team Palestine have been working...

Dinosaurs were thriving before the asteroid hit, new analysis suggests

A ridge of rocks in New Mexico holds a snapshot of a dinosaur heyday. Fossils of crested...

Subway mosquitoes evolved millennia ago in ancient Mediterranean cities

Subterranean mosquitoes specialized for life in subways and sewers first evolved to pester humans millennia ago in...

Coffee beans pooped out by civets really are tastier. Here’s why

The world’s most prized coffee comes from partially digested beans pooped out by the Asian palm civet....

Which venomous snakes strike the fastest?

Some vipers are the sprinters of snakes. Vipers wielded the fastest attacks in a comparison of 36...
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