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OpenAI's Soap Opera Collapse Bodes Ill for AI Benefiting Humanity

OpenAI's Soap Opera Collapse Bodes Ill for AI Benefitin...

SIN Dec 11, 2023 0 4

Whatever fantasies we may have had about the nonprofit structure of OpenAI have ...

Why Some People Choose Not to Know

Why Some People Choose Not to Know

SIN Dec 11, 2023 0 2

Altruists seek to understand how their actions will affect others—while willful ...

Ultrasound Enables Remote 3-D Printing--Even in the Human Body

Ultrasound Enables Remote 3-D Printing--Even in the Hum...

SIN Dec 11, 2023 0 4

For the first time, researchers have used sound waves to 3-D print an object fro...

Betelgeuse Will Briefly Disappear in Once-in-a-Lifetime Coincidence

Betelgeuse Will Briefly Disappear in Once-in-a-Lifetime...

SIN Dec 11, 2023 0 2

For six seconds tonight, the constellation Orion will appear to lose the vibrant...

73 Pre-Incan Mummies, Some with 'False Heads,' Unearthed in Peru

73 Pre-Incan Mummies, Some with 'False Heads,' Unearthe...

SIN Dec 9, 2023 0 1

Burials holding mummies with false heads have been discovered from the Wari Empi...

Tyrannosaur's Stomach Contents Have Been Found for the First Time

Tyrannosaur's Stomach Contents Have Been Found for the ...

SIN Dec 9, 2023 0 2

The fossilized stomach contents of a tyrannosaur have been found for the first t...

FDA Approves First CRISPR Gene Editing Treatment for Sickle Cell Disease

FDA Approves First CRISPR Gene Editing Treatment for Si...

SIN Dec 9, 2023 0 2

Most people with sickle cell disease who received a new gene editing treatment s...

AI Can Now Read Your Cat's Pain

AI Can Now Read Your Cat's Pain

SIN Dec 9, 2023 0 3

Thanks to researchers, new AI tech is delving into feline feelings to see when c...

Thunderstorm Damage Keeps Rising

Thunderstorm Damage Keeps Rising

SIN Dec 9, 2023 0 2

Increasingly frequent thunderstorms caused insurers to pay $60 billion in claims...

How to Choose an Environmentally Friendly Christmas Tree

How to Choose an Environmentally Friendly Christmas Tree

SIN Dec 8, 2023 0 2

Real or artificial? Here’s a climate scientist’s take on what makes a Christmas ...

Bad Science and Bad Statistics in the Courtroom Convict Innocent People

Bad Science and Bad Statistics in the Courtroom Convict...

SIN Dec 8, 2023 0 2

Science, statistics and expert testimony are crucial in securing justice. But th...

Astronomers Spy First Star-Forming Disk beyond the Milky Way

Astronomers Spy First Star-Forming Disk beyond the Milk...

SIN Dec 8, 2023 0 1

No one has ever seen a newborn star feeding on its natal disk anywhere outside o...

Cats Can Hide Their Pain--But Not from AI

Cats Can Hide Their Pain--But Not from AI

SIN Dec 8, 2023 0 2

Machine-learning software gets behind the inscrutable feline face and may improv...

55 Books Scientific American Recommends in 2023

55 Books Scientific American Recommends in 2023

SIN Dec 8, 2023 0 3

The best fiction, nonfiction, history and sci-fi books Scientific American staff...

The World Got Failing Grades on Climate Action. Here's How COP28 Aims to Fix That

The World Got Failing Grades on Climate Action. Here's ...

SIN Dec 8, 2023 0 3

The main negotiations at the COP28 climate meeting will aim to address how count...

Golden Mole That Swims through Sand Rediscovered after 86 Years

Golden Mole That Swims through Sand Rediscovered after ...

SIN Dec 7, 2023 0 22

The iridescent, blind De Winton’s golden mole was last seen in 1937 and later de...

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