Robotics

Our Evolutionary Past Can Teach Us about AI's Future

Our Evolutionary Past Can Teach Us about AI's Future

SIN Nov 7, 2023 0 33

Evolutionary biology offers warnings, and tips, for surviving the advent of arti...

Birds Named after People Will Get New English Names

Birds Named after People Will Get New English Names

SIN Nov 7, 2023 0 45

Standard English names for North American birds will now focus on the animals ra...

New Climate Compensation Agreement Raises International Tensions

New Climate Compensation Agreement Raises International...

SIN Nov 7, 2023 0 25

A U.S. push for voluntary payments in high-stakes negotiations over a global fun...

The Search for New Psychedelics

The Search for New Psychedelics

SIN Nov 6, 2023 0 61

As companies join the hunt, can the field of mind-altering synthetic substances ...

Training Bartenders, Barbers and Divorce Attorneys as Counselors Could Reduce Gun Suicides

Training Bartenders, Barbers and Divorce Attorneys as C...

SIN Nov 6, 2023 0 25

Some of the tens of thousands of suicide deaths in the U.S. each year would not ...

Climate Benefits of Hydrogen Are at Risk as Fossil Fuel Industry Pressures Mount

Climate Benefits of Hydrogen Are at Risk as Fossil Fuel...

SIN Nov 6, 2023 0 21

Rigorous standards are required to scale hydrogen as a clean energy solution; ot...

Elephantnose Fish 'Sees' by Doing an Electric Boogie

Elephantnose Fish 'Sees' by Doing an Electric Boogie

SIN Nov 6, 2023 0 19

The goofy-looking elephantnose fish “sees” its environment in three dimensions b...

AI Needs Rules, but Who Will Get to Make Them?

AI Needs Rules, but Who Will Get to Make Them?

SIN Nov 4, 2023 0 29

Skirmishes at the U.K.’s AI Safety Summit expose tensions over how to regulate A...

Earth Reacts to Greenhouse Gases More Strongly Than We Thought

Earth Reacts to Greenhouse Gases More Strongly Than We ...

SIN Nov 4, 2023 0 25

Climate scientists, including pioneer James Hansen, are pinning down a fundament...

Starfish Are Heads--Just Heads

Starfish Are Heads--Just Heads

SIN Nov 4, 2023 0 20

Scientists have finally figured out how to make heads or tails of starfish

NASA Asteroid Mission Discovers Tiny Surprise Moon with 'Really Bizarre' Shape

NASA Asteroid Mission Discovers Tiny Surprise Moon with...

SIN Nov 4, 2023 0 37

NASA’s Lucy mission flew past an asteroid nicknamed Dinky, only to discover an e...

Lost River Landscape Discovered below East Antarctic Ice

Lost River Landscape Discovered below East Antarctic Ice

SIN Nov 4, 2023 0 21

A preserved river landscape from the time before Antarctica was icebound persist...

Godzilla Is Warning Us Again about the Threats to Our Planet

Godzilla Is Warning Us Again about the Threats to Our P...

SIN Nov 4, 2023 0 26

It’s not just nukes: the power at the heart of the Godzilla franchise is our awa...

Precision Cancer Drugs Glitter with Promise--If You Can Get Them

Precision Cancer Drugs Glitter with Promise--If You Can...

SIN Nov 4, 2023 0 17

A growing arsenal of genetically tailored oncology treatments have spectacular r...

Zoomable JWST Image Brings Far-Distant Galaxies to Your Fingertips

Zoomable JWST Image Brings Far-Distant Galaxies to Your...

SIN Nov 4, 2023 0 28

The James Webb Space Telescope is gazing across the universe to find galaxies cl...

The U.S.'s First Black Female Physician Cared for Patients from Cradle to Grave

The U.S.'s First Black Female Physician Cared for Patie...

SIN Nov 4, 2023 0 27

Rebecca Lee Crumpler became the first Black woman in the U.S. to receive an M.D....

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