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A Camera-Wearing Baby Taught an AI to Learn Words

A Camera-Wearing Baby Taught an AI to Learn Words

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Most machine-learning models rely on mountains of data to replicate human text, ...

Forgotten Electrical Engineer's Work Paved the Way for Radar Technology

Forgotten Electrical Engineer's Work Paved the Way for ...

SIN Feb 2, 2024 0 2

Sallie Pero Mead made major discoveries about how electromagnetic waves propagat...

Wetlands Made Salty by Rising Seas Produce More Heat-Trapping Methane

Wetlands Made Salty by Rising Seas Produce More Heat-Tr...

SIN Feb 2, 2024 0 3

Wetlands with a small amount of salinity can produce more methane gas than those...

Science Is Using Mechanical Moss to Fight Climate Change on the Canary Islands

Science Is Using Mechanical Moss to Fight Climate Chang...

SIN Feb 1, 2024 0 2

On the Spanish archipelago of the Canary Islands, a group of researchers is raci...

What Are Atmospheric Rivers, and How Are They Changing?

What Are Atmospheric Rivers, and How Are They Changing?

SIN Feb 1, 2024 0 3

Though atmospheric river storms are dreaded for the damage they can cause, they ...

An Alliance Calling For More Open AI Should Heed Their Own Call

An Alliance Calling For More Open AI Should Heed Their ...

SIN Feb 1, 2024 0 21

The word “open” is often thrown around in describing AI transparency, but the co...

February 2024: Science History from 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago

February 2024: Science History from 50, 100 and 150 Yea...

SIN Feb 1, 2024 0 1

Curious dinosaur eggs discovered; element 72 named

Why Does the Same Temperature Feel Hotter or Colder in Different Places?

Why Does the Same Temperature Feel Hotter or Colder in ...

SIN Feb 1, 2024 0 21

The answer isn’t just about temperature. Our physiology, psychology and clothing...

Stopping the Latest Outbreak Threat: Chronic Wasting Disease

Stopping the Latest Outbreak Threat: Chronic Wasting Di...

SIN Feb 1, 2024 0 1

A spillover of the neurological disease to humans from deer, elk, and other anim...

How You Can Participate in Solar Eclipse Research

How You Can Participate in Solar Eclipse Research

SIN Feb 1, 2024 0 21

Volunteers can join several crowdsourced science projects during the total solar...

People Have Very Different Understandings of Even the Simplest Words

People Have Very Different Understandings of Even the S...

SIN Feb 1, 2024 0 2

Distinctive meanings for a word like “risk” can have a big impact on public mess...

AI's Climate Impacts May Hit Marginalized People Hardest

AI's Climate Impacts May Hit Marginalized People Hardest

SIN Feb 1, 2024 0 2

A Brookings Institution report warns that energy-hungry artificial intelligence ...

Growth Hormone Injections May Have 'Seeded' Alzheimer's in Some People, Study Suggests

Growth Hormone Injections May Have 'Seeded' Alzheimer's...

SIN Feb 1, 2024 0 28

Injections of no-longer-used growth hormone derived from cadavers may have “seed...

Rising Temperatures Are Turning Some Animals Nocturnal

Rising Temperatures Are Turning Some Animals Nocturnal

SIN Jan 31, 2024 0 2

As climate change makes the planet hotter, some animals might become more active...

To Predict Snowfall, NASA Planes Fly into the Storm

To Predict Snowfall, NASA Planes Fly into the Storm

SIN Jan 31, 2024 0 23

Cloud-diving expeditions reveal the hidden physics of brewing snowstorms

Alien World Denser Than Steel Confounds Our Understanding of Planet Formation

Alien World Denser Than Steel Confounds Our Understandi...

SIN Jan 31, 2024 0 1

A newly spotted world is just perplexingly dense

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