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WIRED Science

Meteorologists Say the National Weather Service Did Its Job in Texas

DOGE cut hundreds of jobs at the NWS, but experts who spoke to WIRED say the agency accurately predicted the state's weekend flood risk.

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WIRED Science

Meteorologists Say the National Weather Service Did Its Job in Texas

Futurism

Scientists Find that Hosing Glizzies Is Basically a Death Sentence

As millions of Americans stock up on hot dogs ahead of Independence Day, researchers have some bad news: those franks are deadly, no tails, snouts, or anuses butts about it. The tragic news comes from a survey published in Nature Medicine, a biomedical research journal. Combing over 60 previous nutrition ...

11 hours ago

Futurism

Scientists Find that Hosing Glizzies Is Basically a Death Sentence

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Wildly Beautiful and Rare "Red Sprite" Flare Seen on Earth From Orbit

Red Sprite or 7-Up? NASA astronaut Nichole Ayers has shared an incredible image of a sprite, a rare weather phenomenon that's triggered high above the clouds by "intense electrical activity in the thunderstorms below." The image shows the rare electrical discharge in the shape of a starkly red, upended ...

13 hours ago

Futurism

Wildly Beautiful and Rare "Red Sprite" Flare Seen on Earth From Orbit

WIRED Science

Is It Time to Stop Protecting the Grizzly Bear?

The Endangered Species Act has a major problem. An unlikely move could help save it.

13 hours ago

WIRED Science

Is It Time to Stop Protecting the Grizzly Bear?

New York Times Science

Third Interstellar Object, Comet 3I/ATLAS, Is Traveling Through Solar System

3I/ATLAS, earlier known as A11pI3Z, is only the third interstellar visitor to be discovered passing through our corner of the galaxy.

1 day ago

New York Times Science

Third Interstellar Object, Comet 3I/ATLAS, Is Traveling Through Solar System

Futurism

Bombshell Research Finds a Staggering Number of Scientific Papers Were AI-Generated

Like any crappy human writer, AI chatbots have a tendency to overuse specific words — and now, scientists are using that propensity to catch their colleagues when they secretly use it in their work. As the New York Times reports,

1 day ago

Futurism

Bombshell Research Finds a Staggering Number of Scientific Papers Were AI-Generated

Futurism

Pollution Industry Using AI to Make the Case for More Pollution

Hundreds of years before there were globe-spanning monopolies like Meta and Google, there was the Hudson's Bay Company — one of the earliest and most powerful North American enterprises. Using the myth of "mutually beneficial exchange," HBC began pilfering the indigenous nations who called North America ...

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Futurism

Pollution Industry Using AI to Make the Case for More Pollution

Futurism

Astronomers Capture First-Ever Image of Star That Exploded Twice

For years, scientists have suspected that stars can meet their doom by a one-two punch of back-to-back explosions — but they've never seen visual evidence of this happening. That just changed. Astronomers using the Very Large Telescope in Chile have taken the first ever image of such a stellar "double-detonation," ...

1 day ago

Futurism

Astronomers Capture First-Ever Image of Star That Exploded Twice

Singularity HUB

Could Electric Brain Stimulation Make You Better at Math?

Personalized, brain-based tools may help learners left behind due to natural differences in how their brains work. The post Could Electric Brain Stimulation Make You Better at Math? appeared first on SingularityHub.

1 day ago

Singularity HUB

Could Electric Brain Stimulation Make You Better at Math?

Futurism

Rocket Scientists Hooked Up ChatGPT to the Controls of a Spaceship, and the Results Were Not What You Might Expect

Despite being stumped by simple children's games, AI models could perform surprisingly well when put in charge of navigating space inside a spaceship, researchers have found. As Live Science reports, a team of scientists from MIT and the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain, instructed OpenAI's ...

1 day ago

Futurism

Rocket Scientists Hooked Up ChatGPT to the Controls of a Spaceship, and the Results Were Not What You Might Expect

WIRED Science

The EU Proposes New Rules to Govern the European Space Race

The Space Act, which would apply to local and foreign companies, aims to simplify procedures, protect assets in orbit, level the playing field, and help European companies expand into new markets.

1 day ago

WIRED Science

The EU Proposes New Rules to Govern the European Space Race

New York Times Science

How Parasitic Cowbirds With No Parents Learns What Species They Are

Cowbird mothers abandon their eggs in the nests of other bird species, but the chicks somehow manage to find their flock and learn what they really are.

2 days ago

New York Times Science

How Parasitic Cowbirds With No Parents Learns What Species They Are

Singularity HUB

New Google AI Will Work Out What 98% of Our DNA Actually Does for the Body

AlphaGenome predicts how long stretches of DNA "dark matter" affect gene expression and a host of other important properties. The post New Google AI Will Work Out What 98% of Our DNA Actually Does for the Body appeared first on SingularityHub.

2 days ago

Singularity HUB

New Google AI Will Work Out What 98% of Our DNA Actually Does for the Body

New York Times Science

Don’t Like Eating Insects? Your Pet Might.

Could insect meal and lab-grown meat be a more sustainable, ethical way to feed our cats and dogs?

2 days ago

New York Times Science

Don’t Like Eating Insects? Your Pet Might.