Robotics

Optical Illusions Can Fool AI Chatbots, Too

Optical Illusions Can Fool AI Chatbots, Too

SIN May 27, 2024 0 46

Experiments with optical illusions have revealed surprising similarities between...

At Least Two Countries Have Lost All Their Glaciers

At Least Two Countries Have Lost All Their Glaciers

SIN May 25, 2024 0 44

Two countries—Slovenia and Venezuela—have lost all of their glaciers. It is a gr...

How the Guinness Brewery Invented the Most Important Statistical Method in Science

How the Guinness Brewery Invented the Most Important St...

SIN May 25, 2024 0 44

The most common test of statistical significance originated from the Guinness br...

The 2024 Hurricane Season Could Be a Dangerous One

The 2024 Hurricane Season Could Be a Dangerous One

SIN May 25, 2024 0 40

The National Hurricane Center’s hurricane season outlook for the Atlantic Ocean ...

Singapore Airlines Turbulence: Why Climate Change Is Making Flights Rougher

Singapore Airlines Turbulence: Why Climate Change Is Ma...

SIN May 24, 2024 0 38

Warming temperatures are likely to mean that more of your plane ride will have r...

Big Oil May Pay Billions for Climate Pollution under New Legislation

Big Oil May Pay Billions for Climate Pollution under Ne...

SIN May 24, 2024 0 41

Vermont's “Climate Superfund Act” would use attribution science to force oil, ga...

The Curious Life of a ‘Grotesque’ Singing Fish

The Curious Life of a ‘Grotesque’ Singing Fish

SIN May 24, 2024 0 59

Plainfin midshipmen migrate from the deep sea to the intertidal zone to spawn, a...

Cutting-Edge Cosmic Microwave Background Observatory Hits South Pole Stumbling Block

Cutting-Edge Cosmic Microwave Background Observatory Hi...

SIN May 24, 2024 0 27

Cosmic Microwave Background Stage 4, a top-priority project for U.S. astrophysic...

We Must Face Down the Expanding Anti-Reality Industry

We Must Face Down the Expanding Anti-Reality Industry

SIN May 24, 2024 0 30

Exposing the antiscience playbook reveals the antiregulatory motives of its deep...

How Often Do Supernovas Strike Earth?

How Often Do Supernovas Strike Earth?

SIN May 24, 2024 0 57

A supernova showering Earth with radioactive debris is a surprisingly common cos...

Cape Cod Weighs Big-Ticket Pollution Solutions

Cape Cod Weighs Big-Ticket Pollution Solutions

SIN May 24, 2024 0 44

Toxic algal blooms are forcing Cape Cod communities to consider expensive sewer ...

Bird Flu’s Missed Clues on Dairy Farms in Texas

Bird Flu’s Missed Clues on Dairy Farms in Texas

SIN May 24, 2024 0 44

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

Crows Rival Human Toddlers in Counting Skills

Crows Rival Human Toddlers in Counting Skills

SIN May 24, 2024 0 41

Counting crows proclaim “caw, caw, caw, caw” when staring at the number four

Cities Are Switching to Electric Vehicles Faster Than Individuals

Cities Are Switching to Electric Vehicles Faster Than I...

SIN May 24, 2024 0 20

Electric trucks and sedans have proven popular with municipal fleets, but cities...

Europe's Mars Rover Will Use New Nuclear Power Source

Europe's Mars Rover Will Use New Nuclear Power Source

SIN May 23, 2024 0 39

The radioactive unit will help to deliver Europe’s first Mars rover to the plane...

Black Hole’s Mysterious ‘Plunging Region’ Matches Einstein’s Predictions

Black Hole’s Mysterious ‘Plunging Region’ Matches Einst...

SIN May 23, 2024 0 18

For the first time, scientists observed matter’s freefall into a black hole’s “p...

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