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Parents Testifying Before US Senate, Saying AI Killed Their Children

Content warning: this story includes discussion of self-harm and suicide. If you are in crisis, please call, text or chat with the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline at 988, or contact the Crisis Text Line by texting TALK to 741741. Parents of children who died by suicide following extensive interactions with ...

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Parents Testifying Before US Senate, Saying AI Killed Their Children

Futurism

FBI Carelessly Incinerates Large Amount of Meth, Sending Workers to Hospital

You work for the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and you're sitting on two pounds of seized meth that you need to get rid of. So what do you do? Burn it all in a pet shelter smack-dab in the middle of town, of course. These are the events that played out in Billings, Montana, last Wednesday. And all ...

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FBI Carelessly Incinerates Large Amount of Meth, Sending Workers to Hospital

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Commercial Airplanes Are Dosing Passengers With Neurotoxic Gases

An increasing number of commercial airline passengers and flight attendants are being exposed to dangerous fumes while in the air, at times resulting in traumatic brain injuries that closely resemble concussions experienced by professional football players. As the Wall Street Journal reports, in worst-case ...

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Commercial Airplanes Are Dosing Passengers With Neurotoxic Gases

New York Times Science

A Defender of Darkness in the Darkest Place on Earth

A Chilean astronomer has become dedicated to battling light pollution in the Atacama Desert and preserve what is considered the best place on Earth to study space.

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New York Times Science

A Defender of Darkness in the Darkest Place on Earth

Futurism

Fixing Hallucinations Would Destroy ChatGPT, Expert Finds

In a paper published earlier this month, OpenAI researchers said they had found the reason why even the most powerful AI models are suffering from rampant "hallucinations." They found that the way we evaluate the output of large language models, like the ones driving ChatGPT, means they're "optimized ...

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Fixing Hallucinations Would Destroy ChatGPT, Expert Finds

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NSF invests $6.2 million in EPSCoR Research Fellows

The U.S. National Science Foundation is investing $6.2 million in 24 exceptional researchers who have been selected as NSF Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research...

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National Science Foundation

NSF invests $6.2 million in EPSCoR Research Fellows

New York Times Science

Happy 10th Birthday to the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory. Now Drop Dead.

Ten years ago, astronomers made an epic discovery with the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory. Cosmology hasn’t been the same since, and it might not stay that way much longer.

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New York Times Science

Happy 10th Birthday to the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory. Now Drop Dead.

Futurism

When You Read the Fine Print, Humanoid Robots Are Going Absolutely Nowhere

We tend to get fixated on realizing certain contraptions from science fiction, no matter how impractical. Flying cars. Jet packs. And now, humanoid robots. It's only the latter, however, that's anticipated to one day be a multitrillion dollar market, with big firms like Tesla leading the charge. In ...

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When You Read the Fine Print, Humanoid Robots Are Going Absolutely Nowhere

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WIRED Science

Whole-Genome Sequencing Will Change Pregnancy

At WIRED Health 2025, Orchid CEO Noor Siddiqui and the genomics pioneer George Church laid out their view of the future of genetic screening.

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WIRED Science

Whole-Genome Sequencing Will Change Pregnancy

WIRED Science

The Next Era of Gene Editing Will Be Disease Agnostic

At the WIRED Health summit, biochemist David Liu said his lab is on the verge of revealing a new gene-editing technique that could target multiple unrelated diseases.

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The Next Era of Gene Editing Will Be Disease Agnostic

WIRED Science

WIRED Health Recap: Cancer Vaccines, Crispr Breakthroughs, and More

This year’s WIRED Health summit in Boston featured Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel, CNN chief medical correspondent Sanjay Gupta, and a day’s worth of insights and provocative conversations.

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WIRED Science

WIRED Health Recap: Cancer Vaccines, Crispr Breakthroughs, and More

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OpenAI Realizes It Made a Terrible Mistake

OpenAI claims to have figured out what's driving "hallucinations," or AI models' strong tendency to make up answers that are factually incorrect. It's a major problem plaguing the entire industry, greatly undercutting the usefulness of the tech. Worse yet, experts have found that the problem is getting ...

1 day ago

Futurism

OpenAI Realizes It Made a Terrible Mistake

WIRED Science

The Quest to Find the Longest-Running Simple Computer Program

The Busy Beaver Challenge, a notoriously difficult question in theoretical computer science, is now producing answers so large they’re impossible to write out using standard mathematical notation.

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WIRED Science

The Quest to Find the Longest-Running Simple Computer Program

WIRED Science

Big Businesses Are Doing Carbon Dioxide Removal All Wrong

The technology is needed to limit global warming. But corporations are supporting it in lieu of reducing emissions.

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WIRED Science

Big Businesses Are Doing Carbon Dioxide Removal All Wrong

New York Times Science

California’s $23 Billion Plan to Restore Federal Cuts to Scientific Research

Democrats are calling for the creation of a state equivalent of the National Institutes of Health, but first state lawmakers and then voters would need to approve it.

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New York Times Science

California’s $23 Billion Plan to Restore Federal Cuts to Scientific Research