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Revolutionary Alzheimer’s Treatments Can’t Help Patient...

It’s a question of when, not if, highly effective treatments become available, s...

Starliner Faces an Indefinite Wait in Space While NASA ...

The space agency has pushed back the spacecraft’s return to an unspecified date ...

What Came Before the Big Bang?

By studying the geometry of model space-times, researchers offer alternative vie...

Recluse Spider Season Is a Myth

The venom of recluse spiders can be dangerous, but the idea of there being a “se...

Everything’s About to Get a Hell of a Lot More Expensiv...

Intensifying hurricanes, floods, and heat waves are wreaking havoc across the co...

How to Exercise Safely During a Heat Wave

An expert in heat-related illnesses outlines the dos and don'ts for when you're ...

Perplexity Plagiarized Our Story About How Perplexity I...

Experts aren’t unanimous about whether the AI-powered search startup’s practices...

My Memories Are Just Meta's Training Data Now

Meta’s plans to use personal content posted by Facebook and Instagram users to t...

Science Is Full of Errors. Bounty Hunters Are Here to F...

A new project is paying researchers to find errors in other scientists’ work. Th...

Chimpanzees seek out medicinal plants to treat ailments...

Scientists monitoring 51 chimpanzees saw sick or injured animals eating certain ...

When Was the Last Time You Finished a Book? You Need an...

Margaret Atwood, Marlon James, Lena Dunham, Garth Greenwell, Roxane Gay: We’ve a...

Big Tech Is Giving Campaigns Both the Venom and the Ant...

Microsoft and Google have taught dozens of political groups how to use generativ...

We’re Still Waiting for the Next Big Leap in AI

Anthropic’s latest Claude AI model pulls ahead of rivals from OpenAI and Google....

Good Search Borrows, Great Search … Steals?

This week, we talk about how content on the open web is being used to train AI-p...

European lynx species rebounds from brink of extinction

In 2001, there were only 62 mature Iberian lynx on the Iberian Peninsula.

Europe Scrambles for Relevance in the Age of AI

With chatbot and AI development largely coming from the US, some EU entrepreneur...