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Trump and the Energy Industry Are Eager to Power AI With Fossil Fuels

AI is “not my thing,” President Donald Trump admitted during a speech in Pittsburgh on Tuesday. However,...

How an ancient marine predator snuck up on its prey

A past predator of the seas may have had a secret weapon: noise-cancelling flippers that helped it...

This star offers the earliest peek at the birth of a planetary system like ours

McKenzie Prillaman is a science and health journalist based in Washington, DC. She holds a bachelor’s...

No, shaken baby syndrome has not been discredited

Citations S.K. Narang et al. Abusive head trauma in infants and children: Technical report. Pediatrics. Published online...

In a first, an image shows a dying star exploded twice to become a supernova 

For the first time, astronomers have spotted a star that exploded not once, but twice. A new...

Protein signatures may one day tell brain diseases apart before symptoms

A large-scale study of proteins in blood and cerebrospinal fluid could pave the way for improved blood...

Organ age, not just your birthday, may determine your health risks

You could be 45 on paper but 60 in your kidneys. Turns out, your organs have birthdays...

Does the AI industry operate like a modern colonial empire?

Empire of AIKaren HaoPenguin Press | $32 If you’ve been following the meteoric rise of artificial...

How fast did dinosaurs really go? Birds walking in mud provide new clues

Over a video call from a dig site near Oxford, England, Peter Falkingham points his phone down...

The Structure of Ice in Space Is Neither Order nor Chaos—It’s Both

Ice is a key component in the universe. There are frozen water molecules on comets, moons, exoplanets,...

The biggest black hole smashup ever detected challenges physics theories

Senior physics writer Emily Conover has a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Chicago. She...

For Algorithms, Memory Is a Far More Powerful Resource Than Time

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.One July afternoon in 2024, Ryan Williams set...
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