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Optical Illusions Can Fool AI Chatbots, Too Experiments with optical illusions have revealed surprising similarities between human and AI perception

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What Does an AI Do When It Sees an Optical Illusion?

Experiments with optical illusions have revealed surprising similarities between human and AI perception

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At Least Two Countries Have Lost All Their Glaciers Two countries—Slovenia and Venezuela—have lost all of their glaciers. It is a grim benchmark showing the progression of climate change

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At Least Two Countries Have Lost All Their Glaciers

Two countries—Slovenia and Venezuela—have lost all of their glaciers. It is a grim benchmark showing the progression of climate change

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Big Oil May Pay Billions for Climate Pollution under New Legislation Vermont's “Climate Superfund Act” would use attribution science to force oil, gas and coal companies to cover damages associated with their emissions

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Vermont Is Coming for Big Oil, Making It Pay for Decades of Climate Pollution

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The Curious Life of a ‘Grotesque’ Singing Fish Plainfin midshipmen migrate from the deep sea to the intertidal zone to spawn, and that’s when things really get loud

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The Curious Life of a ‘Grotesque’ Singing Fish

Plainfin midshipmen migrate from the deep sea to the intertidal zone to spawn, and that’s when things really get loud

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Cape Cod Weighs Big-Ticket Pollution Solutions Toxic algal blooms are forcing Cape Cod communities to consider expensive sewer and septic system projects.

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Cleaning Cape Cod’s Water Could Cost More Than $1 Billion

Toxic algal blooms are forcing Cape Cod communities to consider expensive sewer and septic system projects.

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Bird Flu’s Missed Clues on Dairy Farms in Texas Detecting bird flu signs in dairy cows sooner could have helped staunch the virus's spread

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How Bird Flu Slipped Past High-Tech Texas Dairy Farmers

Detecting bird flu signs in dairy cows sooner could have helped staunch the virus

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Europe's Mars Rover Will Use New Nuclear Power Source The radioactive unit will help to deliver Europe’s first Mars rover to the planet’s surface

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Europe’s Mars Rover Will Use New Nuclear Power Source

The radioactive unit will help to deliver Europe’s first Mars rover to the planet’s surface

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The Artificial Intelligence Era Faces a Threat from Directed Energy Weapons Autonomous and AI-enabled systems increasingly rely on optical and radio frequency sensors and significant computer power. They face growing vulnerabilities from directed-energy laser and microwave weapons

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The Artificial Intelligence Era Faces a Threat from Directed Energy Weapons

Autonomous and AI-enabled systems increasingly rely on optical and radio frequency sensors and significant computer power. They face growing vulner...

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The Great Solar Storm of 2024 May Have Made the Strongest Auroras in Centuries Northern and southern lights produced by a recent bout of severe space weather may rival the most intense auroras of the past 500 years

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The Great Solar Storm of 2024 May Have Made the Strongest Auroras in Centuries

Northern and southern lights produced by a recent bout of severe space weather may rival the most intense auroras of the past 500 years

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A “Zombie Expert” Shares Advice on How to Survive the Apocalypse Cooperation theorist Athena Aktipis talks about zombies, game theory, go bags and more in her new book, A Field Guide to the Apocalypse.

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The Apocalypse Is Going to Be a Lot Friendlier Than You Think

Cooperation theorist Athena Aktipis talks about zombies, game theory, go bags and more in her new book, A Field Guide to the Apocalypse.

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Could Putting Neosporin in Your Nose Fend Off COVID? People may someday have a surprisingly familiar tool to prevent viral infections: one of the antibiotics found in a common ointment

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Could This Common Antibiotic Gel Help You Avoid COVID?

People may someday have a surprisingly familiar tool to prevent viral infections: one of the antibiotics found in a common ointment

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Phoenix, America’s Hottest City, Is Having a Surge of Deaths Skyrocketing temperatures are colliding with a lack of planning in Phoenix that is contributing to a rise in heat-related deaths

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America’s Hottest City Is Having a Surge of Deaths

Skyrocketing temperatures are colliding with a lack of planning in Phoenix that is contributing to a rise in heat-related deaths

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Ed Dwight, America's First Black Astronaut Candidate, Flies to Space on Blue Origin Rocket The 90-year-old finally realized his dreams of spaceflight aboard Blue Origin's New Shepard vehicle, which also carried five other crew members on a short suborbital voyage

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Ed Dwight, America’s First Black Astronaut Candidate, Flies to Space on Blue Origin Rocket

The 90-year-old finally realized his dreams of spaceflight aboard Blue Origin’s New Shepard vehicle, which also carried five other crew members o...

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The Sordid History of U.S. Food Safety Highlights the Importance of Regulation Author and science journalist Deborah Blum describes how an Indiana chemist kicked off the first major food regulation in the U.S.

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You Can Thank This Chemist and His "Poison Squad" for Food Safety in the U.S.

Author and science journalist Deborah Blum describes how an Indiana chemist kicked off the first major food regulation in the U.S.

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There's a Missing Human in Misinformation Fixes Misinformation solutions target a rational, ethical ideal who doesn’t exist; to combat misinfo, we need to start with a richer concept of the human

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There’s a Missing Human in Misinformation Fixes

Misinformation solutions target a rational, ethical ideal who doesn’t exist; to combat misinfo, we need to start with a richer concept of the human

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A Widely Used Criminal Justice Algorithm For Assessing Child Pornography Recidivism Is Flawed The CPORT algorithm, commonly used to estimate the risk that a child pornography offender will offend again, hasn’t been validated for use in the U.S.

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A Widely Used Criminal Justice Algorithm For Assessing Child Pornography Recidivism Is Flawed

The CPORT algorithm, commonly used to estimate the risk that a child pornography offender will offend again, hasn’t been validated for use in the...

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Quantum Internet Demonstrations Debut in Three Cities It’s a “big deal” to demonstrate entangled quantum networks outside a lab

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City-Sized Quantum Internet Demonstrations Are the Most Advanced Yet

It’s a “big deal” to demonstrate entangled quantum networks outside a lab

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Chemists Chase ‘Clean’ Ammonia to Replace Shipping Fuel President Biden’s climate law is funding “green ammonia” projects in hopes of using the chemical to more cleanly power the grid, fuel cargo ships and make fertilizer

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Chemists Chase ‘Clean’ Ammonia to Replace Shipping Fuel

President Biden’s climate law is funding “green ammonia” projects in hopes of using the chemical to more cleanly power the grid, fuel cargo s...

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What Is Pasteurization, and How Does It Keep Milk Safe? The pasteurization process was invented in the 1860s and continues to keep people safe from a range of foodborne illnesses

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What Is Pasteurization, and How Does It Keep Milk Safe?

The pasteurization process was invented in the 1860s and continues to keep people safe from a range of foodborne illnesses

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Hurricanes Caused Lost Income among at Least Half of Local Residents Nearly half of residents lost income after a hurricane, a new study shows. Most were low-paid hourly workers in storefront shops

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Hurricanes Caused Lost Income among at Least Half of Local Residents

Nearly half of residents lost income after a hurricane, a new study shows. Most were low-paid hourly workers in storefront shops