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Scientists Claim That Three Minutes With a “Donkey or Small Horse” Can Save Teenagers From Depression

"You can't stand in a pasture watching a child and a donkey interact and pretend only one of them is having an experience." The post Scientists Claim That Three Minutes With a "Donkey or Small Horse" Can Save Teenagers From Depression appeared first on Futurism.

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Scientists Claim That Three Minutes With a “Donkey or Small Horse” Can Save Teenagers From Depression

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Kenya Unleashing Solar-Powered Ambulance With Wicked Long Range for Service to Remote Villages

"It will enable us to go and screen mothers and babies, catch complications early and refer them in real time." The post Kenya Unleashing Solar-Powered Ambulance With Wicked Long Range for Service to Remote Villages appeared first on Futurism.

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Kenya Unleashing Solar-Powered Ambulance With Wicked Long Range for Service to Remote Villages

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Scientists Create New Humanoid Robot That Flinches in Fear When You Come Close

Bow down to your human. The post Scientists Create New Humanoid Robot That Flinches in Fear When You Come Close appeared first on Futurism.

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Scientists Create New Humanoid Robot That Flinches in Fear When You Come Close

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US Federal Register Caught Using Chinese AI Model for Document Search

"Even the United States government is unable to afford the cost per token charged by American AI companies." The post US Federal Register Caught Using Chinese AI Model for Document Search appeared first on Futurism.

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US Federal Register Caught Using Chinese AI Model for Document Search

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Video Shows Huge Drone Descending on Unsuspecting Dog and Blasting It With Water

"Nothing in millions of years of evolution has prepared this dog for this scenario." The post Video Shows Huge Drone Descending on Unsuspecting Dog and Blasting It With Water appeared first on Futurism.

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Video Shows Huge Drone Descending on Unsuspecting Dog and Blasting It With Water

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Strange Seeds Appear to Be Growing Into Massive Black Holes

Could this explain the "little red dots" mystery? The post Strange Seeds Appear to Be Growing Into Massive Black Holes appeared first on Futurism.

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Strange Seeds Appear to Be Growing Into Massive Black Holes

New York Times Science

Archaeologists Decode Rules of an Ancient Roman Board Game

They scanned the pattern of microscopic imperfections on an ancient limestone slab, and used A.I. to figure out how a game might have been played.

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Archaeologists Decode Rules of an Ancient Roman Board Game

WIRED Science

Tiny Hairs That Help Corals Breathe May Malfunction in Warming Oceans

Several new studies have uncovered this long overlooked aspect of coral physiology that could be the key to the animals’ fate in a changing climate.

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Tiny Hairs That Help Corals Breathe May Malfunction in Warming Oceans

New York Times Science

Two Centuries On, Smithsonian Connects Jefferson’s Hair to Hemings’s Children

A new book describes how cutting-edge genomics techniques yielded “extraordinary proof” that Thomas Jefferson fathered children with Sally Hemings.

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Two Centuries On, Smithsonian Connects Jefferson’s Hair to Hemings’s Children

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Creating a Kill Switch to Shut Down a Rogue A.I. Is Harder Than It Sounds

A bipartisan group in Congress and Gov. Gavin Newsom of California have floated ideas for building a mechanism that would instantly power down an A.I. system. Only no one really knows how.

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Creating a Kill Switch to Shut Down a Rogue A.I. Is Harder Than It Sounds

WIRED Science

Mathematicians Hate AI. They Can’t Quit It

Powerful AI models have created an existential risk to the field, but researchers can’t stop relying on them because they’re too useful.

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Mathematicians Hate AI. They Can’t Quit It

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Residents Harmed by Oil Drilling May Soon Receive Reparations Under New California Law

While lawmakers iron out the details, advocates hope this approach could serve as a model for addressing histories of environmental hazards often concentrated in Black and low-income neighborhoods.

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Residents Harmed by Oil Drilling May Soon Receive Reparations Under New California Law

Singularity HUB

Virtual Biotech Company Puts 37,000 AI Agents to Work on Drug Discovery

The system, designed by Stanford researchers, identified which drugs are more likely to succeed in trials and even proposed a cancer treatment a major drugmaker later landed on too. The post Virtual Biotech Company Puts 37,000 AI Agents to Work on Drug Discovery appeared first on SingularityHub.

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Virtual Biotech Company Puts 37,000 AI Agents to Work on Drug Discovery

New York Times Science

New Species of Cat Discovered for First Time in a Century

The species, called a tilcayo, is smaller than a house cat and lives in the cloud forests of the Andes Mountains in Bolivia.

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New Species of Cat Discovered for First Time in a Century

New York Times Science

NASA Telescope Helps Scientists Find a New Type of X-ray Object

The discovery of “hypersoft” X-ray beacons could help solve some mysteries about the universe.

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NASA Telescope Helps Scientists Find a New Type of X-ray Object

WIRED Science

He Won the Nobel Prize for Protein Design. Now He Uses AI to Create Molecules Not Found in Nature

David Baker spoke with WIRED en Español about where biological design is headed next and the great potential and risks of taking biology outside the bounds of the natural world.

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He Won the Nobel Prize for Protein Design. Now He Uses AI to Create Molecules Not Found in Nature

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It Still Feels Like Summer in Parts of the US. Blame El Niño

Heat records are being shattered thanks to a boost from the natural climate pattern—and burning fossil fuels, of course.

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It Still Feels Like Summer in Parts of the US. Blame El Niño

New York Times Science

Will A.I. Kill Us" Can It Hack My Bank Account" Your A.I. Questions Answered

Nearly 1,000 readers sent us their questions about artificial intelligence, its potential and its potential risks.

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Will A.I. Kill Us" Can It Hack My Bank Account" Your A.I. Questions Answered

WIRED Science

Why AI Isn’t Likely to Wipe Out Humanity With Bioweapons

Of all the threats presented by uncontrollable artificial intelligence, scientists say death by plague ranks low.

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Why AI Isn’t Likely to Wipe Out Humanity With Bioweapons

Singularity HUB

The Next Frontier Is Not Artificial Intelligence—It’s Artificial Societies

We're fixated on the intelligence of single agents. The more profound challenge is what happens when millions of them interact at scale. The post The Next Frontier Is Not Artificial Intelligence—It’s Artificial Societies appeared first on SingularityHub.

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The Next Frontier Is Not Artificial Intelligence—It’s Artificial Societies