Astrophysics

Tricks for making AI chatbots break rules are freely available online

Tricks for making AI chatbots break rules are freely av...

SIN Aug 21, 2023 0 4

Certain prompts can encourage chatbots such as ChatGPT to ignore the rules that ...

3D-printed toilet is so slippery that nothing can leave a mark

3D-printed toilet is so slippery that nothing can leave...

SIN Aug 21, 2023 0 24

You may never need to clean a toilet again, thanks to a new material that keeps ...

Russia's Luna 25 moon mission ends in catastrophic crash

Russia's Luna 25 moon mission ends in catastrophic crash

SIN Aug 21, 2023 0 27

It has been almost 50 years since Russia - then the Soviet Union - landed safely...

Google AI predicts floods four days early in South America and Africa

Google AI predicts floods four days early in South Amer...

SIN Aug 21, 2023 0 4

An artificial intelligence from Google can predict floods even in regions with l...

IBM has just made error correction easier for quantum computers

IBM has just made error correction easier for quantum c...

SIN Aug 19, 2023 0 5

The difficulty of quantum error correction has been a major stumbling block for ...

First cargo ship powered by 'green methanol' has begun maiden voyage

First cargo ship powered by 'green methanol' has begun ...

SIN Aug 19, 2023 0 2

A container ship on its way from South Korea to Denmark is using methanol fuel t...

Consciousness traced to specific clusters of nerve cells in the brain

Consciousness traced to specific clusters of nerve cell...

SIN Aug 18, 2023 0 27

Researchers have mapped how clusters of nerve cells in the brain connect to regu...

Blood test could tell if a fever is due to infection or other diseases

Blood test could tell if a fever is due to infection or...

SIN Aug 18, 2023 0 3

Analysis of gene activity in a blood sample can help determine if a fever is cau...

AI chatbots become more sycophantic as they get more advanced

AI chatbots become more sycophantic as they get more ad...

SIN Aug 18, 2023 0 3

If a person says they believe an objectively false statement, AIs tend to agree ...

Do honeyguides really help honey badgers find bees’ nests?

Do honeyguides really help honey badgers find bees’ nests?

SIN Aug 18, 2023 0 26

An African bird called the greater honeyguide is said to lead honey badgers to b...

Making your phone screen blurry could stop people snooping on you

Making your phone screen blurry could stop people snoop...

SIN Aug 18, 2023 0 3

Thanks to the way human eyes work, a system that makes your phone screen blurry ...

Extreme fires caused by ancient humans wiped out Californian megafauna

Extreme fires caused by ancient humans wiped out Califo...

SIN Aug 18, 2023 0 27

A series of catastrophic fires killed off many large mammals in southern Califor...

Astronomers have found a strange new type of extremely magnetic star

Astronomers have found a strange new type of extremely ...

SIN Aug 18, 2023 0 2

A new type of star may eventually collapse and become a magnetar – a highly magn...

All of Neptune’s clouds have vanished – it may be because of the sun

All of Neptune’s clouds have vanished – it may be becau...

SIN Aug 18, 2023 0 23

Over the past few years, the white clouds that usually shroud Neptune’s surface ...

Black holes may be hurtling around at 10 per cent the speed of light

Black holes may be hurtling around at 10 per cent the s...

SIN Aug 17, 2023 0 2

When two black holes merge to form a single one, it can zoom off at an extraordi...

Flies riding on a carousel suggest that insects like to play

Flies riding on a carousel suggest that insects like to...

SIN Aug 17, 2023 0 25

Fruit flies with access to a spinning carousel seem to ride on it for fun in a r...

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