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How Earth's Early Life Thrived amid Catastrophic Asteroid Impacts A gigantic space rock that slammed into Earth more than three billion years ago grievously wounded the biosphere—and then helped it heal

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Three Billion Years Ago, a Giant Impact Boiled Away Some of Earth’s Ocean. Then Life Bounced Back

A gigantic space rock that slammed into Earth more than three billion years ago grievously wounded the biosphere—and then helped it heal

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How Your Brain Processes Zero (It’s Not Exactly ‘Nothing’) What we think about when we think about “zilch” is surprisingly complex, neuroscientists find

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How Your Brain Processes Zero (It’s Not Exactly ‘Nothing’)

What we think about when we think about “zilch” is surprisingly complex, neuroscientists find

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The Colors of Fall Leaves Are Shaped by Climate Change and Tree Health A tree’s fall palette offers a glimpse at its health and the weather it has experienced in a given year

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What Brilliant Fall Leaf Colors Tell Us about Tree Health and Climate

A tree’s fall palette offers a glimpse at its health and the weather it has experienced in a given year

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AI Regulation and the Challenges of Misinformation in the 2024 Presidential Election The next U.S. president will have to contend with regulations around AI—and the electorate is already facing AI-generated misinformation.

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What the Next President Will Do about Artificial Intelligence

The next U.S. president will have to contend with regulations around AI—and the electorate is already facing AI-generated misinformation.

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AI Regulation and the Challenges of Misinformation in the 2024 Presidential Election The next U.S. president will have to contend with regulations around AI—and the electorate is already facing AI-generated misinformation.

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What the Next President Will Do about Artificial Intelligence

The next U.S. president will have to contend with regulations around AI—and the electorate is already facing AI-generated misinformation.

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Don’t Panic. AI Isn’t Coming to End Scientific Exploration Science is filled with tools that once seemed revolutionary and are now just part of the research tool kit. That time may have come for artificial intelligence

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Don’t Panic. AI Isn’t Coming to End Scientific Exploration

Science is filled with tools that once seemed revolutionary and are now just part of the research tool kit. That time may have come for artificial ...

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Don’t Panic. AI Isn’t Coming to End Scientific Exploration Science is filled with tools that once seemed revolutionary and are now just part of the research tool kit. That time may have come for artificial intelligence

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Don’t Panic. AI Isn’t Coming to End Scientific Exploration

Science is filled with tools that once seemed revolutionary and are now just part of the research tool kit. That time may have come for artificial ...

Scientific American 1 year ago

Don’t Panic. AI Isn’t Coming to End Scientific Exploration Science is filled with tools that once seemed revolutionary and are now just part of the research tool kit. That time may have come for artificial intelligence

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Don’t Panic. AI Isn’t Coming to End Scientific Exploration

Science is filled with tools that once seemed revolutionary and are now just part of the research tool kit. That time may have come for artificial ...

Scientific American 1 year ago

Don’t Panic. AI Isn’t Coming to End Scientific Exploration Science is filled with tools that once seemed revolutionary and are now just part of the research tool kit. That time may have come for artificial intelligence

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Don’t Panic. AI Isn’t Coming to End Scientific Exploration

Science is filled with tools that once seemed revolutionary and are now just part of the research tool kit. That time may have come for artificial ...

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Donald Trump Wants to Make Eugenics Great Again. Let’s Not Trump’s anti-immigrant good-gene-bad-gene screeds are nothing but factless eugenics for a new era

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Donald Trump Wants to Make Eugenics Great Again. Let’s Not

Trump’s anti-immigrant good-gene-bad-gene screeds are nothing but factless eugenics for a new era

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You Don’t Need Words to Think Brain studies show that language is not essential for the cognitive processes that underlie thought

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You Don’t Need Words to Think

Brain studies show that language is not essential for the cognitive processes that underlie thought

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Hurricane Helene Damage Strains Dialysis Care Nationwide Hurricane Helene devastated a North Carolina facility that produces peritoneal dialysis fluid, which is used by about 80,000 people nationally

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Hurricane Helene Damage Strains Dialysis Care Nationwide

Hurricane Helene devastated a North Carolina facility that produces peritoneal dialysis fluid, which is used by about 80,000 people nationally

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Numbers Are Persuasive—If Used in Moderation Despite high levels of innumeracy and math anxiety, people often appreciate numeric data

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Numbers Are Persuasive—If Used in Moderation

Despite high levels of innumeracy and math anxiety, people often appreciate numeric data

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How Implicit Bias Affects Your Medical Care How do you stop implicit bias from getting in the way of better health? This doctor wants to make learning how to manage bias as important as learning how to suture.

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Unconscious Bias at the Doctor’s Office

How do you stop implicit bias from getting in the way of better health? This doctor wants to make learning how to manage bias as important as learn...

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SpaceX Catches a Falling Starship—a First in Spaceflight History SpaceX’s fifth Starship flight test concluded with mechanical arms snatching the descending rocket booster out of the air

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SpaceX Catches a Falling Starship—A First in Spaceflight History

SpaceX’s fifth Starship flight test concluded with mechanical arms snatching the descending rocket booster out of the air

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Smart Tech Would Make Your Office Building Greener Implementing smart technologies like demand-controlled ventilation could reduce the carbon footprint of office buildings, which contribute over one third of fossil fuel emissions globally

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Smart Tech Would Make Your Office Building Greener

Implementing smart technologies such as demand-controlled ventilation could reduce the carbon footprint of office buildings, which contribute more ...

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What is Implicit Bias, and how Might it Affect Your Next Medical Visit? We talk to Cristina Gonzalez, a doctor at New York University, who runs a lab that uses simulations to help medical professionals check their implicit bias at the exam room door.

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What Is Implicit Bias, and How Might It Affect Your Next Medical Visit?

We talk to Cristina Gonzalez, a physician at New York University, who runs a lab that uses simulations to help medical professionals check their im...

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How Marie Curie Helped a Generation of Women Break into Science Marie Curie is well known for her chemistry achievements but less so for helping other women succeed in science

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The Untold Story of Marie Curie’s Network of Female Scientists

Marie Curie is well known for her chemistry achievements but less so for helping other women succeed in science

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NASA’s Europa Clipper Spacecraft Aims for Jupiter’s Most Intriguing Moon For the first time, we are sending a spacecraft to explore an alien ocean world—a moon that might host life today

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NASA’s Europa Clipper Spacecraft Aims for Jupiter’s Most Intriguing Moon

For the first time, we are sending a spacecraft to explore an alien ocean world—a moon that might host life today

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Trump’s Racist Rants against Immigrants Hide under the Language of Eugenics Anti-immigrant rhetoric in the U.S. comes straight out of the playbook of eugenics, deeply dishonest scientism that criminality, poverty and a host of other ills were all genetically inherited

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Why Trump and Vance Are Spewing Eugenics

Anti-immigrant rhetoric in the U.S. comes straight out of the playbook of eugenics, deeply dishonest scientism that falsely claims that criminality...